In countries across Europe, nativist far-right political parties have dramatically expanded their vote share in recent years, ...

Germany heads to the polls in just 10 days, with conservative leader Friedrich Merz widely expected to replace Olaf Scholz as ...

Russian-linked online disinformation networks are spreading faked spy agency warnings of terrorist attacks in Germany ahead ...

Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday clashed with opposition leader Friedrich Merz in a heated debate, accusing him of ...

Inciting hatred against migrants, rearmament, and cuts in social provisions stood at the centre of the recent prime-time ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his conservative rival Friedrich Merz faced off in a heated TV debate on Sunday, exactly ...

Mr Merz promises to energise the “Weimar triangle” with France and Poland, musing on military co-operation as well as joint projects in AI and quantum computing. He can imagine working “very ...

So it was until last week, when it seemed all but certain that Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU ... against cooperation with the far right have weakened. From France to Austria, the ...

Germany’s outgoing government is the border checks it imposed on all its frontiers last fall by another six months as it ...

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

The networks were also spreading unfounded rumours aimed at discrediting Friedrich Merz, the conservative leader whom polls ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, the front-runner in the election, wants to go further than the current government. He has said that if he becomes chancellor, he would order the Interior ...