Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany's next chancellor, said defence spending targets should be aligned with ...

Friedrich Merz, the German conservative who is the front-runner to become the next chancellor, downplayed a remark by US ...

The debt brake was this limit on government debt and deficits that was introduced in the first Merkel grand coalition, in ...

US President-elect Donald Trump’s demand for NATO members to increase their defense spending from the 2% minimum target to 5% ...

Germany's snap poll in February 2025 follows a year of political instability, economic decline, and tensions over Ukraine, ...

Several changes to migration rules have come into effect since the start of 2025, and further changes are being debated. Here ...

Participants in a far-right meeting in Germany uncovered by media outlet Correctiv have filed two complaints over the report ...

The German conservative in pole position to become the next chancellor is toughening his position on migration as he tries to ...

Rather than a ‘burden on the taxpayer’, the welfare state should be understood in normative terms as productive social ...

A new survey has found that many Germans have lost faith in their political leaders. The ruling SPD was seen as having "trust" and "competence" issues.

The AfD has been notoriously divided, making it difficult to pin down a specific profile for the whole party. But its radical ...

The Freedom Party and its leader, Herbert Kickl, have steadily built support by demonizing immigrants, while entering Austria’s political mainstream.