“This really is democracy’s last bullet,” said CSU leader Markus Söder. While he was referring to the threat from the far ...

Friedrich Merz, the incoming chancellor, persuaded lawmakers to let him spend more. Infrastructure will be the first order of ...

It has also shocked many observers in a country whose constitution guarantees the free expression and distribution of ...

Don’t be fooled: Germany’s Christian Democratic Uni­on is not the same party it was under the former chancellor, Angela Merkel. In early February, just a few weeks before the German federal elections, ...

Germany’s incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced Wednesday his center-right Christian Democratic Union made a deal to form a governing coalition with the center-left Social Democrats.

[AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi] On Wednesday, Germany’s Chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), along with Social Democratic Party (SPD) leaders Lars Klingbeil ...

Pressure was on between the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU ... Speaking during a news conference, Merz laid out a vision of a Germany restored to its former strength and reliability.

In the Parliament, or Bundestag, women make up only 12 percent of the hard-right Alternative for Germany, known as the AfD, while in Mr. Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union ...

Germany's economy has struggled to recover since the coronavirus pandemic, and there are concerns about the impact of such massive spending increases on the country's fiscal stability. Christian ...

April 9 (UPI) --Details on a political deal to form a new German coalition government will be presented Wednesday by the conservative Christian Democratic Union and the center-left Social ...