Germany does not mess around when it comes to social mores. The country is run on an informal system of rules absorbed by natives nearly on autopilot — and tourists who ignore them may find themselves ...

Friedrich Merz, Christian Democratic Union party chairman, shakes hands with the Social Democratic Party co-leaders Saskia Esken next to Lars Klingbeil and Markus Soeder, chairman of Bavarian's ...

Social security failures coupled with structural gender inequality leave many people in Germany mired in poverty, especially single-parent families and older women. Major gaps remain in the world’s ...