And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...

an 18th-century manor of white sandstone and baroque-style roof slates, in the centre of Brilon. Brilon’s Haus Sauvigny, in which Friedrich Merz spent his childhood years Credit: ALAMY Having ...

BERLIN — An attack on a trade union demonstration on Thursday by an Afghan asylum seeker is rocking the campaign race for Germany’s election on Feb. 23 that has already been shaped by fierce debates ...

Suspect named with at least 30 injured ahead of Zelensky’s visit for security conference - Afghan failed asylum-seeker in ...

Follow live updates as a car crashes into a crowd of pedestrians in Munich in a suspected attack leaving dozens injured.

Extremist issues, not the movies, could (once again) be the focus at this year’s Berlinale, and the billionaire broligarch is ...

The US was refusing to co-sponsor a draft UN resolution marking three years since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine that backs Kyiv’s territorial integrity and again demands Russia withdraw its troops, ...

Wearing only low-slung jeans and a torn white T-shirt, he shivers as he ... who are running second in the polls. Friedrich Merz, the leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union and ...

At least 28 people were injured, some of them seriously, when the car hit a trade union rally in the city centre.

For all the alarm about the instability of German politics, the results of this month’s federal election campaign seem – on ...