The government is a centrist parliamentary coalition. To undo its predecessor’s democratic backsliding, it needs the ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz made a tougher migration policy a central plank of his election campaign and ordered more border ...

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt appeared at the Austro-German border to explain the government's new tougher border controls. The new government has made immigration policy a key part of its ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is in Rome and has met Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni. Meanwhile, the business-focused FDP party has a new leader after a poor election result. DW has more.

The former Bundestag president is poised to become co-leader of the SPD as it attempts a reboot after historic election ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday urged the West not to be divided on Ukraine and said he was working to ensure ...

Although Friedrich Merz has big ambitions for Germany’s international role, significant domestic pressures remain and will constrain his government’s room for manoeuvre.

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 ...

Britain and Germany will jointly develop a new "deep precision strike" weapon with a range exceeding 2,000 kilometres (1,242 ...

Germany's Free Democratic Party (FDP) is set to meet on Friday to appoint its new leadership, months after its catastrophic ...

We are running in the staff council elections to free us from the straitjacket of the Verdi (Public Service workers trade ...

Conservatives led by Friedrich Merz remain committed to renewables, but say "we must and we will change" an economic policy focused on climate.