Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela Merkel era.

Almost a decade ago, a Syrian refugee's selfie with Germany's then chancellor Angela Merkel went viral. Today, Anas Modamani has a job, a German passport and a fiancee and no plans to return to his war-ravaged country. While right-wing politicians in ...

Nevertheless, it is a reminder again of Germany’s toxic reliance on Russian money. This is hardly a shock. Few countries have embraced Moscow quite so wholeheartedly. Ties between the two were forged during the old Soviet Union then fortified under a succession of naive German leaders after the Berlin Wall was torn down.

Friedrich Merz is a longtime rival of Angela Merkel who has tried to move their party back to the right.

Outside Germany, Germany is still intact. I often find this when I travel. Outside Germany, Germany is still a car country, home to a flourishing economy. Outside Germany, Germany is still a prosperous country,

Abdulmohsen. Police haven't cited a motive, but a minister confirmed that the suspect was “clearly Islamophobic.”

These pejoratives condemn former German Christian Democratic Union Chancellor Angela Merkel’s overweight 700-page memoir as not worth the price of admission. Merkel served 16 years as chancellor from 2005 to 2021 before voluntarily bowing out.

If polls are correct, Olaf Scholz’s successor could be the 69-year-old leader of the Christian Democratic Union. He is offering to get the German economic engine humming again.

Political instability in Germany and France, combined with the return of Donald Trump in 2025, threatens to undermine the EU's ability to shape responses to the Ukraine war and other geopolitical and economic challenges.

After Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is Europe about to get its next existential shock in the shape of Donald Trump? From trade to defense to tech, the combination of mercantilism and MAGA is going to hurt — but hopefully also jolt Europeans out of typical complacency.

ANGRY mobs of protesters have clashed with cops in Germany in the wake of the Magdeburg Christmas market massacre. People stormed through the city following the arrest of a refugee Saudi doctor

Much of 2024 was lost in the internal tensions bickering on how to fix the economy, with divergent views often exploding into the open. The final nail in the coffin was the row that triggered over the 2025 budget,