The EPP’s messaging is clear that the CDU will return in the driver’s seat, if Merz becomes Germany's chancellor.

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who is tipped to be Germany's next chancellor, has vowed to build 50 gas-fired power plants ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany's next chancellor, said the second presidency of Donald ...

BERLIN—During Elon Musk’s freewheeling conversation with the leader of a far-right German party last week, spanning Hitler, ...

On Nov. 21, 1979, Pierre Trudeau announced he was stepping down as Liberal leader after losing an election to the ...

German prosecutors said Thursday they had charged three people suspected of supplying Chinese intelligence with information on maritime technology with potential military uses.

“I would like to have a state that is minimized in its functions ... progressive politics. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was forced to dissolve parliament late last year after the ruling “traffic ...

A state funeral will take place for former US President Jimmy Carter in Washington today. UK PM Keir Starmer will also meet ...

The debt brake was this limit on government debt and deficits that was introduced in the first Merkel grand coalition, in ...

Tesla tycoon Elon Musk’s endorsement of Alternative for Germany (AfD) could legitimise the far-Right party among business people and ordinary voters, easing its eventual path to power, a member of the ...

While all those ingredients were present in this year’s televised address by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, he also included an oblique reference to a non-German who has taken a strong, some might say ...

German lawmakers are quizzing officials over possible security lapses linked to the deadly car ramming in Magdeburg. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said the attacker showed "signs of a pathological ...