German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on his conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) to focus more on the east of the ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz defended his government's new migration policy on Saturday, saying it remains in line with ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament ...

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—collectively known as the ...

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too ...

In the German Bundestag, Christian Democratic Union chief Friedrich Merz took the oath of office as Germany's new chancellor, ...

Germany’s recent federal election signaled a shift in the country’s politics – and employers will surely feel the impact. The center-right ...

In the second round, Merz got 325 votes, thus surpassing the 316 minimum requirement Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was elected Chancellor of Germany on Tuesday after the ...

The setback was a major embarrassment for the leader of Merz's center-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany party, less than three months after winning the most votes in the federal election.

And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...