Friedrich Merz’s high-stakes gamble to enlist the far right in pressuring the German government to tighten migration laws has upended the campaign three weeks before general elections.

Did Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, fall into a trap? Or is he forcing other mainstream parties to confront what ...

Weeks before Germany's elections, a heated immigration debate inflamed by a deadly knife attack triggered a political ...

Germany's opposition conservatives won parliamentary approval on Wednesday for a proposal to drastically restrict migration ...

Elon Musk’s appearances at the Trump inauguration and a rally for Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland don’t just hark back to the past. They fuse authoritarian nationalism with a distinctive ...

I find it worrying that a man with enormous access to social media and large financial resources is so directly involved in ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz's main challenger in Germany's upcoming election plans to put proposals for a tougher migration policy ...

Having leaned so hard on defending democracy during the campaign only to see voters narrowly choose the autocrats, Democrats ...

If we choke off the growth of the U.S. wind industry while electricity demand is soaring, we may well have to recommission mothballed coal plants.

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Classifying parties as populist Although experts generally agree that populist political leaders or parties display high ...