Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in the polls. By Clay Risen Reporting from Berlin Ever since the German ...

Jim Tankersley Christopher F. Schuetze Melissa Eddy and Clay Risen Friedrich Merz won a second-chance vote to become Germany’s chancellor on Tuesday afternoon, rebounding from a morning defeat ...

Alice Weidel may get the last laugh yet. The co-leader of Germany’s most popular party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), was visibly amused on Tuesday morning when Friedrich Merz, the head of the ...

BERLIN, May 7 (Reuters) - German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt issued an order on Wednesday to reject undocumented migrants, including asylum seekers, at the country's borders, on the first ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor by the German parliament on Tuesday in a second round of voting, after failing to secure an absolute majority in an earlier round. His appointment ...

World War II ended in Europe 80 years ago this Thursday, but the remains of German soldiers are still being found. As Germany's far-right AfD party rallies behind a broader effort to reframe ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in becoming Germany’s next chancellor, drawing applause and a palpable sense of relief in the parliament chamber after a ...

Friedrich Merz has secured a majority in the second round of voting at the German Bundestag, averting a constitutional crisis. https://p.dw.com/p/4txyR Merz (center ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz won lawmakers' approval to become the next German chancellor on Tuesday in a second vote in parliament, hours after an unprecedented defeat in the first round.

Immigrants can still apply for German citizenship after five years of continuous residency and an intermediate B1 level of German proficiency. (Reuters) Friedrich Merz’s center-right CDU ...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz has formally become chancellor at the second attempt, hours after an unprecedented defeat signaled deep discontent within his coalition. In a hastily organized session ...

However, a special court in Germany is still pursuing around a dozen of those who helped the Nazis commit mass murder, 80 years after the end of the Second World War, The Post has learned.