Germany’s “Great Coalitions” are getting smaller. In the (then West German) Federal Republic in the 1980s, the centrist major parties gathered over 85% of the vote between them. In 2025, the former ...

"We must not think only in military terms, which is only a part of the issue, but also use diplomacy," Angela Merkel stressed ...

Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?” The question was famously attributed to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry ...

The White House bust-up between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy — leading to a US decision to suspend military aid to Ukraine — was triggered by an exchange over the terms of a possible ceasefire ...

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

The real winners of Germany’s election are sitting in Moscow. Despite Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats (CDU) technically ...

But Angela Merkel ... that German politicians of a certain type will just go on repeating," said Prof Hough. "But it doesn't work with the rest of Merz's agenda." Image: With Ukrainian President ...

Watch the trailer for 'Merkel,' a documentary about Germany's historic chancellor, Angela Merkel, who ruled for 16 years.

By Jason Cowley The collapse of support for the mainstream centre-left in Western democracies is accelerating with the abject defeat of Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) in the German federal ...

Germans are divided on whether a proposed ‘European Army’ is a good idea for the country. Earlier this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Munich Security Conference that ...

Merkel enjoyed an improbable rise from East German chemistry researcher to her reunited country’s first female chancellor. For a time, she was the world’s most respected head of state, at the center of ...