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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Friedrich Merz received a rude shock on the morning of May 6, 2025, ...

The election of a new German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, just last week, set me thinking of the sad fate of a lady who once seemed guaranteed to be one of the iconic leaders of modern Europe: the ...

Germany and Israel are commemorating the beginning of their postwar relationship, with the war in Gaza omnipresent.Sixty ...

There is a telling rumor in Berlin political circles. Upon his appointment as leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) ...

Communist East Germany, which accused the FRG of being the “heir of the Nazi Reich,” started attacking Israel as the  “Fourth ...

Friedrich Merz’s halting path to the chancellor’s office inflamed his challenges at home and abroad, including a threat from ...

Germany was long a beacon of stability in Europe, its politics often reassuringly boring. "Germany and Europe need a strong ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in becoming Germany’s next chancellor, drawing applause ...

Friedrich Merz has secured a majority in the second round of voting at the German Bundestag, averting a constitutional crisis ...

The leader of Germany's Christian Democrat-Social Democratic coalition, Friedrich Merz, suffered a shock defeat Tuesday in ...

Merz won in a second round of voting after failing to secure an absolute majority in an earlier round.