At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections.

Vice President Vance met Friday with a leader of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, making him the ...

His comments shocked attendees at the Munich Security Conference and seemed to target efforts to sideline the hard-right ...

In Germany, as elsewhere, "democracy" means whatever the ruling class says it means. Often, that means banning dissident political parties.

Germany's conservative parties and far-right AfD lead in the polls, with the CDU’s Friedrich Merz likely to become chancellor ...

German industry has been hit by soaring energy costs following EU sanctions against Russia. Major business groups such as ...

The chancellor, who is trailing in the polls ahead of the Feb. 23 snap election, expressed confidence that Germany will have a parliamentary majority to loosen the debt brake.

Framed as the troublemaker in an unpopular coalition, the FDP is mostly polling below Germany’s electoral threshold of 5%. If ...

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on the 13th (local time), Merz stated, "We cannot overlook what happened ...

which had led Germany since 2021, collapsed in November. The coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Greens fell apart amidst the country's economic and ...

While the Christian Democrat camp is comfortably leading in the polls, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is ...

The runner-up is likely to be the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which has long been excluded by other parties as a prospective coalition partner due to its extremism. The centre-left ...