Germany’s new parliament has elected as its speaker a conservative former minister. She called Tuesday for civilized debate ...

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

Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and winner of Germany’s Feb. 23 election ... Germany’s debt brake came into force in 2009, during former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s reign and ...

Family and friends gathered at Djinkarr for the ceremony – a different setting than CDU’s usual graduation auditoriums. Picture: Fia Walsh. Dr Yibarbuk is a revered leader and elder across ...

A "historically unique" state leader, as former CDU Chancellor Angela Merkel called him. Vogel not only served as a state premier for the longest time in German history, he was the only person to ...

Bianca Del Rio has been busy, busy, busy. The drag artist extraordinaire and biting comedian flew into New Orleans last week from New Zealand, at the conclusion of a 127-date world tour. Then ...

But the CDU didn’t choose him—at least, not at first. Twice, it picked centrists in the mold of Merkel. But the party kept losing electoral ground. Finally, in 2022, its members saw fit to ...

Edward Howell Crosby says he was shocked when he found out he would reign as the monarch of merriment. Now, he can’t wait to share the day with his family and friends. Edward Howell Crosby ...

Not their first rodeo: We’ve seen the grand coalition before, most recently in former chancellor Angela Merkel’s last term ... more strained when Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) submitted an ...