The class of lawmakers taking office is noticeably more male and less diverse than the constituents it will represent.

Merz’s embrace of compromise with the SPD and the Greens (who are expected to play a role in the coalition) risks being seen ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore up Ukraine’s sovereignty and defend Europe from Russia with or without the ...

The German lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, is convening as coalition talks between the SPD and CDU continue. Lawmakers tipped the CDU's Julia Klöckner as president of the chamber.

Friedrich Merz’s €1tn spending package has cleared its final hurdle in Germany’s outgoing parliament as the conservative chancellor-in-waiting turns to difficult coalition talks with Social Democrats.

Merz’s draft legislation, however, raised the ire of former Chancellor and CDU leader Angela Merkel, who intervened ... warned the CDU (and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU) that it should ...

Zeeva Bukai’s debut novel imagines the impact of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict within the domestic confines of a romantic relationship.

While addressing the media after the results of Germany’s Feb. 23 election were out, the leader of the leading conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party ...

Preliminary coalition talks between the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), its Bavarian sister party the CSU ... as former CDU Chancellor Angela Merkel called him. Vogel not only served ...

Three goals are being pursued with Germany’s massive rearmament offensive: Breaking free from military dependence on the US, ...

NOTTINGHAM - The victory of Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Germany’s recent federal election, which all but assures that Merz will be the next chancellor, is an encouraging ...