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

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

German opposition leader and chancellor-hopeful Friedrich Merz is scheduled to meet U.S. Vice President JD Vance for ...

At the centre of the immigration debate is the notion of “welfare magnetism”: the idea that migrants are drawn to Germany by ...