For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

In panel discussions, roundtables, and closed-door meetings, analysts exalted the virtues of the United States as an ...

In Germany's mouse-gray political landscape, Claudia Roth stands out as a colorful and often polarizing exception. On May 15, ...

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—collectively known as the ...

After long negotiations between the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, the parties agreed to establish a coalition ...

However, our current geopolitical scenario makes it all the more important to remember the enormous significance of the ...

How is lobbying regulated in Germany— and how big a problem is it? Newly elected Chancellor Friedrich Merz, from the ...

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too ...

Friedrich Merz has plunged straight into international crises on his first full day as Germany’s new chancellor. He presented ...

Conservatives led by Friedrich Merz remain committed to renewables, but say "we must and we will change" an economic policy ...

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that threatened to hobble his new government.

The Merz government is undoubtedly the most reactionary and anti-working class government since the fall of the Nazi regime ...