Germany elected a new government headed by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a center-right party, sweeping out the ...

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

THE last time Germany held a snap national election, in 2005, there was a change of power from left-of-centre to ...

Only after the Poland invasion in 1939, and the realization that appeasement simply does not satiate a dictator’s appetite ...

There were many twists in the investigation, as seen in the two-hour long “Dateline” episode titled "A Walk Through the Woods ...

The euro eased off highs from a brief rally on Monday as the focus shifted from the election victory of Germany's ...

The German electorate has boosted conservative Friedrich Merz to lead Germany, and by extension Europe, during a decisive stress test in transatlantic relations. Can he rise to expectations?

The Left won 8.8 percent of the vote, nearly doubling its share from the last election. It performed especially well in the ...

All three parties in the former governing coalition lost seats, with the centre-left Social Democrats falling to 120 seats, the Greens to 85 and the Liberal Party losing all its seats. While the Left ...

Europe has been rattled by hostile remarks by US Vice-President JD Vance and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and threats that Europe could no longer count on US military support if attacked.

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the early euphoria of reunification, enduring economic inequalities between East and West have hollowed out support for Germany’s major ...

Germany’s election continues a slump for left-leaning parties in affluent countries, often connected to immigration and the ...