Germany's conservative opposition party is set to team up with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to tackle migration - prompting anger from former Chancellor Angela Merkel. CDU leader ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore up Ukraine’s sovereignty and defend Europe from Russia with or without the ...

BERLIN - A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending ...

Last January Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were ahead in the German opinion polls by fifteen points. She was stepping down after sixteen years as chancellor (prime minister), but she ...

Members of the conservative CDU party, likely to lead the next German government, have raised the possibility of importing Russian gas again. The far right has welcomed the idea.

Germany's new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with a reduced headcount, fewer women and a record number of ...

Merz’s embrace of compromise with the SPD and the Greens (who are expected to play a role in the coalition) risks being seen ...

Then German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) speaks at a press conference at the CDU headquarters. Michael Kappeler/dpa 32,789 people played the daily Crossword ...

CDU politician Julia Klöckner is the new President of the German Bundestag. At the constituent session of the national ...

instituted by former CDU chancellor Angela Merkel to formally restrain government borrowing. There is broad public approval of higher spending on the armed forces and defence, arising from the ...