The government and party leaders have made clear they are determined to squeeze trillions of euros out of the working ...

Germany's chancellor supported the move not to fly the rainbow flag on the Reichstag building, saying "the Bundestag is not a ...

German leaders intend to ramp up defense spending and build the most powerful armed forces in Europe, but shadows of World ...

Germany is not on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons,' says government spokesman following call from Chancellor Friedrich ...

The incoming German chancellor campaigned as a debt hawk. Then a source told him about Trump’s plans for NATO.

Germany does not recognise the Taliban government, which took control of Afghanistan in 2021, and maintains no official ...

Friedrich Merz is the 10th chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is also the chairman of Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Merz, a former European Parliament ...

Friedrich Merz reacts after he failed to be elected new chancellor in the first voting process at the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Tuesday, May 6, 2025.

The Social Democrats say the first legal steps should be taken to ban the far-right Alternative for Germany party as ...

Former German health minister Jens Spahn is under pressure over his procurement of expensive coronavirus masks after a leak ...

The delegates to the Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SDPP) overwhelmingly rejected the resumption of ...

By all accounts, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's visit to Donald Trump in the Oval Office was a success. But the bar was low. There are plenty of potential pitfalls for the trans-Atlantic ...