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

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has described President Donald Trump's suggestion that the U_S_ could take ownership of the ...

With German elections just weeks away, hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets to denounce the far-right.

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

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

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

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