The CDU did reasonably well at state elections in Germany’s east earlier this month: it retained control of Saxony, holding ...

The leaders of Germany's conservatives have agreed to nominate Christian Democrat (CDU) chief Friedrich Merz to run as ...

Coming 85 years to the day after Germany’s invasion of Poland, marking the start of World War II and the unspeakable horrors ...

White clouds still billow from the cooling towers of a coal plant near Spremberg in Germany's ex-communist east but the end ...

Interior minister Nancy Faeser says the aim is to ‘protect against acute dangers’ – but some of the country’s neighbours are ...

German Christian Democratic Union Chairman Friedrich Merz secured the conservative candidacy to challenge Olaf Scholz for the ...

As populist parties surge in the eastern part of the country, the ruling coalition is stumbling and the traditional political ...

U.S. voters are willing to contemplate installing Donald Trump in the White House for a second term, an equally significant ...

in response to recent electoral gains made by the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, in eastern Germany. Yet Scholz’s ...

Germany has tightened control at all land border crossings ... The arrival of "irregular migrants," which is an alternative ...

Germany has announced plans to tighten control at all of its land borders as part of a crackdown on migration, placing ...