Was the report on the causes of the pandemic kept under lock and key? Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel denies it, and ...

Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option for forming a government amid a fragmented political landscape.

Middle powers, like Germany and South Africa, need to step up their collaboration while striving for a global order based on ...

Coalition talks between the CDU and SPD are continuing apace as the parties try to rush major bills on defence and ...

Friedrich Merz is on track to become the next chancellor of Germany after an early exit poll put his centre-right CDU/CSU bloc in the ... for a man pushed aside by Angela Merkel in the early ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called for European unity in the face of current political challenges, ...

Nahal Toosi is POLITICO’s senior foreign affairs correspondent. She has reported on war, genocide and political chaos in a career that has taken her around the world. Germans delivered a major ...

In the lead, polls currently suggest, is the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)/Christian Social Union (CSU) bloc ... from 2000 until 2018, by Angela Merkel. Friedrich Merz's stance on migration ...

Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has promised to "massively expand border controls" once the country's next ...

VICTOR GROSSMAN believes peace in Ukraine needs to come before anything else and abhors the EU's insane drive to keep the war ...

Lawmakers in Germany took a step to loosen a long-standing limit on government debt. The move aims to allow the ...

But whatever political plans Merz had for himself and for Germany at the time, he had to change them with the appearance of Angela Merkel ... by the CDU and CSU for being still considered not ...