Just months after Vice President J.D. Vance admonished European officials for censoring citizens, a new German governing ...

The nominations from the CDU and CSU show that the shift to the right that is taking place in the US under Donald Trump is ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has topped a national poll for the first time, prompting the popular Bild newspaper to carry the headline: “AfD breaks the magic barrier”. The poll put the ...

She started out in China on a German government scholarship and stayed to write a doctoral thesis on its pension system, ...

Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has revealed which Cabinet positions which will be filled by ministers from his ...

The CDU and SPD have a "common duty" to prevent further success of the AfD, says Merz – "Germany is not involved in the war ...

BERLIN - Germany's Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Monday named utility executive Katherina Reiche as his likely economy minister and foreign policy expert and ally Johann Wadephul as foreign ...

The AfD's popularity in Germany is growing - 25% support. How did the country of exemplary denazification turn out to be ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and his CDU won Germany's election, yet his personal popularity is low — and getting lower. Most Germans don't trust him, not least because of his approach to the ...

Centrist parties seek to impose tighter controls on public debate, all in the name of democracy.

BERLIN - Germany's Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Monday named utility executive Katherina Reiche as his likely economy minister and foreign policy expert and ally Johann Wadephul as foreign ...

DER SPIEGEL's coverage of the far-right AfD is commendable, writes media critic Bernhard Poerksen. But there are several ...