Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

A network of more than 700 fake social media accounts has sprung up in the last week of Germany's election campaign, ...

Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

In a survey out last year, women aged 14 to 29 reported significantly less support for Merz’s party than their male peers ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he will travel to Washington to try to convince President Donald Trump that ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

Sunday's vote is being held more than half a year ahead of schedule after centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way ...

With international politics in flux, three leading historians give their views on the most consequential election in a ...

When Donald Trump won the US election in November, Germany’s government imploded. Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance ...

For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.

Sunday’s vote comes at a time of upheaval for Europe and its biggest economy as US President Donald Trump has ended a united ...