Bundestag confirmed Friedrich Merz as Germany's new chancellor ... who made it clear that he expected to easily secure a majority in parliament, given that his CDU and its coalition partners, the ...

The Bundestag elected CDU leader Friedrich Merz as Chancellor of Germany on the second attempt. The previous vote ended in defeat for the politician. Commentators also see it as a setback for the ...

Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, increasingly pitches himself as a pragmatist akin to Angela Merkel. But his mantra ...

As Germany prepares to spend 5% of GDP on defence, Chancellor Friedrich Merz must overcome scepticism both within his ...

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too?

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt says that the number of people turned back at the country’s borders increased by ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has officially designated the country's main opposition party a right-wing extremist ...

Addressing the Bundestag, incoming Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt concentrated on two points: closing the borders to ...

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

The CDU party leader was confirmed as Germany's chancellor on Tuesday in a second vote after a tumultuous first round saw him fall six votes short. Bundestag confirmed Friedrich Merz as Germany's ...