German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised no collaboration between his Social Democrats (SPD) and the extreme right on Tuesday ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has accused his main rival in Germany's upcoming election of "constant about turns," while Friedrich ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his conservative rival Friedrich Merz exchanged blows on Tuesday as lawmakers convened for ...

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

BERLIN — The Left party is experiencing an unexpected momentum boost less than two weeks before Germany’s national election. Nearly 23,500 people have joined the far-left party since the start of the ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised no collaboration between his Social Democrats (SPD) and the extreme right on Tuesday ...

Reminders of Germany’s Nazi past are everywhere in the city of Pforzheim. Small brass “stumble stones” dotted through the streets mark the homes of Jewish people who were deported and murdered.

Intentionally or not, concerned businesses, the ascendant far right and traditional conservatives are coming together to ...

It is not a question of distributing the 35,000 job losses “fairly” between east and west Germany, but of preventing them.

Framed as the troublemaker in an unpopular coalition, the FDP is mostly polling below Germany’s electoral threshold of 5%. If ...

Germany's neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP) have a long history of being junior partner in federal governments. This year, however they could fail to win parliamentary representation altogether.

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...