Former German chancellor Angela Merkel dismissed accusations of a cover-up regarding her handling of intelligence reports on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, her spokeswoman said on Thursday.

According to media reports, the German foreign intelligence service, the BND, suspected as early as 2020 that the Covid-19 pandemic was caused by an accident in a laboratory in Wuhan. At the time, ...

For decades, Germans took Russia's energy, China's market and the US' security guarantee for granted. They can't be so complacent any more For decades, Germany prided itself on fiscal restraint, ...

Germany was already in bad standing with Trump while Angela Merkel was Chancellor -- not least because of her open refugee ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's new parliament on Tuesday elected as its speaker a conservative former minister, who called for ...

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

Angela Merkel said there is nothing wrong with attempting to understand Vladimir Putin. In an interview with the Berliner Zeitung, the former German chancellor criticized the invasion of Ukraine and ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined thousands who marched to condemn the terrorist attacks in Paris, promote tolerance and send a rebuke to a growing anti-Islamic movement today. The chancellor ...

The leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a top contender for the chancellorship, Merz is playing a ...

The decisions made by the new Bundestag will determine whether Europe moves toward stronger unity and security, or risks ...

(Bloomberg) -- Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz plans to free Germany from the fiscal straitjacket that former leader Angela Merkel had locked her country into for more than a decade ...