Election campaign posters showing German Social Democratic Party, SPD, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, top, and his challenger ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the favourite to become the country's next chancellor after elections on February ...

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...

Outside a disused lamp factory in the southeastern German village of Rott am Inn, four mannequins, including one holding a ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused his conservative rival Friedrich Merz of being ready to cooperate with the ...

German industry has been hit by soaring energy costs following EU sanctions against Russia. Major business groups such as ...

Sending workers abroad has been at the core of development strategies of Asian countries like the Philippines and Bangladesh ...

At the centre of the immigration debate is the notion of “welfare magnetism”: the idea that migrants are drawn to Germany by ...

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

The allegation comes less than two weeks before Scholz’s party is poised to face a heavy defeat in Germany’s federal election ...

Over the past decade and beyond, the CDU has undergone a significant identity shift under former Chancellor Angela Merkel.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused his election rival Friedrich Merz of having broken his word by accepting ...