For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

Post-WWII Germany has long been wary of state power and unfettered spending − and that may stymie new chancellor’s plans.

At the beginning of 1890, Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African countries, contacted the ...

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 ...

Germany's government has banned the largest “Reich citizen” group. The extremist far-right organization calls itself the ...

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has banned the far-right group "Kingdom of Germany," a prominent faction of the ...

The leader of a secessionist group styled as the "Kingdom of Germany" was arrested with supporters for allegedly running a ...

The German government has banned the largest “Reich citizen” group, an extremist far-right organization that calls itself the “Kingdom of Germany” and seeks to undermine the country’s democratic order ...

The move enabled the government to significantly increase the military budget, so that it could help defend Ukraine and itself in the future. It was a bold — and for Germany — swift move that showed ...

The CDU-CSU will lead Germany’s next government after three-and-a-half years of the deeply unpopular three-way coalition headed by Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, who governed along with the Greens ...

Since the Left Party backed the new German government's war loans of €1 trillion in the Bundesrat (Federal Council), it has taken an increasingly aggressive stance on foreign policy ...