Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), introduced a nonbinding motion in the ...

A suspected Islamist attack in Munich has ignited fierce political debate on security and migration just over a week before ...

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

In countries across Europe, nativist far-right political parties have dramatically expanded their vote share in recent years, ...

But it was a lone voice of dissent that rocked the country’s political scene ... chancellor candidate for the conservative Christian Democratic Party, has been a Merkel rival for decades.

It also marks yet another clear break from his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party's more centrist stance ... a far cry from 20 years ago, when his political career looked over.

Italy’s Five Star Movement was long a classic “populist” movement, rejecting ideological labels. Its recent decision to join ...

Political scientist Sean Westwood is one of them. The Democratic Party, he says, needs “to shift from coddling white progressive voters to a policy platform that … cultivate(s) economic ...

Prominent mainstream media journalist and author Joe Klein savaged the Democratic Party, claiming that its recent Democratic National Committee meeting proves the party’s “intellectual ...

Slowly, however, the political winds shifted, as they often do. By 2022, it was the leadership of the San Francisco Democratic Party that seemed out of step. Among other moves, the party opposed ...

Rep. Jared Golden, D-ME, warned members of the Democratic Party against going "DEFCON 5" on everything President Donald Trump does in an interview on Friday, explaining it would lose them credibility.