This move could serve as a broad basis for the voice of the diverse civil society in Mediterranean countries, and ...

Soon-to-be opposition Greens make climate commitments a precondition of support to allow new coalition to reach two-thirds ...

FT survey finds ‘large fiscal capacity’, but economists urge would-be chancellor Friedrich Merz to spend funds wisely ...

FT survey finds ‘large fiscal capacity’, but economists urge would-be chancellor Friedrich Merz to spend funds wisely ...

In today's edition of The Capitals, read about Macron courting Orbán on Ukraine ahead of the EU Summit, Musk's attempt to undermine Romania's pre-election disinformation roundtable, and so much more.

The map below shows the location of Marseille and Copenhagen. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance ...

The CDU/CSU won 208 seats in the 630-seat Bundestag, necessitating a coalition to secure a governing majority. The most viable partnership appears to be with the center-left Social Democratic Party ...

All parties have ruled out forming a coalition with far-right AfD. Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option for ...

And only secondarily on the state", Resing said. Merz launched his political comeback after Merkel stepped down as CDU leader in 2018 and announced that she wouldn't seek a fifth term of chancellor.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Germany’s final election results have been declared and Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU alliance-led conservatives have won the 2025 polls, though short of the 30% vote-share they had expected. The far right ...

Start with the obvious. Until now, in every West German and then German federal election since 1949, no party other than the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) or the Social Democrats (SPD) had ever ...