Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said on ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America and the author of The Abandonment of the West: ...

In Stuttgart, the Black Zero statue was created by the state finance ministry of Baden-Württemberg in 2014 to celebrate the fact that it had reached a balanced budget several times in the previous ...

Now, Trump’s 25 percent tariff blitz on many foreign auto imports, which is still in place even as he paused a broader set of so-called “reciprocal” tariffs for 90 days, is putting the vaunted German ...

Germany's conservative and center-left parties are eager to reach a coalition deal, given the many uncertainties abroad. One ...

Europe’s governments are divided on the role nuclear power should play in meeting the EU’s decarbonisation targets. Some ...

Germany's 146-page coalition deal lays out policy compromises in exacting details. But who runs which ministries remains a decisive question.

The new programme contains an ominous nod by both parties to the electoral threat of the nationalist far-right ...

The President thrives on confrontation and demands supplication. Politicizing the economy creates opportunities for both.

Germany has announced it will turn away asylum seekers at its borders as part of a raft of new measures to curb illegal ...

The gap between rhetoric and reality is especially stark when one compares the government programme to the election manifesto ...

Germany’s new chancellor and CDU leader is in a hurry to rebuild his country’s military – but can he overcome domestic ...