Germany is preparing for elections after its previous three-party coalition collapsed. The main political parties are aligned ...

The country has the largest population - 84 million - and the biggest economy in Europe with a GDP of $4.5trn, but its ...

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

An Afghan man with suspected jihadist motives goes on trial in Germany on Thursday over a knife attack that killed a ...

Germany could face months of political uncertainty after the federal election on Feb. 23 as the winning party will almost ...

Germany could face months of political uncertainty after the federal election on Feb. 23 as opposition chief Friedrich Merz, whose conservative CDU/CSU bloc is far ahead in the polls, will almost ...

Opinion polls continue to show the CDU (German Tories) way ahead on 29%, with the AfD (far-right, and far worse than Reform) ...

It is not a question of distributing the 35,000 job losses “fairly” between east and west Germany, but of preventing them.

A burst of enthusiasm among the membership has given Germany’s socialist party Die Linke what might be its last chance at ...

German industry has been hit by soaring energy costs following EU sanctions against Russia. Major business groups such as ...

The three parties leading so far in the German polls have lost ground slightly, according to the latest survey by the INSA ...

An 80-year firewall has been shattered as the centre-right offers to team up with the far-right AfD to pass tougher ...