Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

Here are five reasons for Germany's ongoing economic slump: Moscow's decision to cut off natural gas supplies to Germany in ...

Alice Weidel from Alternative for Germany (AfD) is a far-right and right-wing populist political party. She is the first ...

When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, the news was met by many in Europe with both stunned surprise and guarded optimism.

The frontrunner in the race to run Germany is Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democrats (CDU) are up to 10 points ahead in ...

French President Emmanuel Macron waves after an informal summit of European leaders to discuss the situation in Ukraine.

AfD has support across Germany and is represented in all but two of the 16 state legislatures, but the party is strongest in ...

Germany has a complicated system in which voters get two votes, one for the candidate in their own constituency, and another for a party's electoral list. There's also a minimum 5% threshold for a ...

On European issues, the leader of the Christian Democrats and likely future chancellor of Germany intends to lay boundaries ...