US President Donald Trump’s secretary of state Marco Rubio accused the German state of “tyranny in disguise”, further ...

Friedrich Merz takes office as Germany’s new chancellor under a cloud of uncertainty. With internal dissent, a surging far ...

For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has officially designated the country's main opposition party a right-wing extremist ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has expressed skepticism regarding a potential ban on the far-right AfD, which was ...

And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...

Germany has tightened its border controls, and interior minister Alexander Dobrindt announced increased measures against ...

Post-WWII Germany has long been wary of state power and unfettered spending − and that may stymie new chancellor’s plans.

In a wide-ranging speech in the Bundestag, the German Chancellor outlined his new government's priorities, including a plan ...

In his maiden speech as chancellor to Germany's Bundestag, Merz tried to position himself as a unifying centrist figure.

Although Friedrich Merz has big ambitions for Germany’s international role, significant domestic pressures remain and will constrain his government’s room for manoeuvre.

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt on Tuesday said a recent intelligence assessment classifying the Alternative for ...