Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament delayed him from taking office. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting ...

Follow DW for more. Scholz praised Germany's imminent change of government as an "expression of democratic normality"Image: Michael Kappeler/dpa/picture alliance German Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has designated AfD as a right-wing extremist organisation, citing xenophobic stances as the reason. Germany’s Federal Office for ...

What did Vance and Rubio say? US Vice President JD Vance on Friday accused Germany of rebuilding a "Berlin Wall." "The West tore down the Berlin Wall together. And it has been rebuilt — not by ...

A remarkable exchange played out on X on Friday as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused the government of key ally Germany of “tyranny in disguise” for designating the far-right ...

Germany's decision to label AfD as a "proven right-wing extremist endeavor" makes it easier for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany's spy agency, to conduct some types ...

Germany's intelligence agency, BfV, has classified the AfD as an extremist group, enabling closer monitoring due to its anti-immigration stance and controversial rhetoric. The decision follows ...

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution or BfV, on Friday classified the country’s popular Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as ...

The German domestic intelligence service BfV on Friday classified the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a right-wing extremist group, citing numerous instances of the party trying to "undermine ...

His latest book “In Search of Berlin” is published by Atlantic. He is a regular POLITICO columnist. Germany is good at doing things slowly. Six months ago, the country’s last government collapsed, as ...

He flew a Mosquito bomber and carried out 50 bombing raids over Germany, 13 of them over Berlin. He recalls one incident when a shell exploded under the aircraft, cutting power to both engines.