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 ...

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

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

Dogged by protesters, but apparently safe from damage in the polls, Friedrich Merz is putting a failed immigration gambit ...

Asked what he made of Trump's proposal to redevelop Gaza into “the Riviera of the Middle East," Scholz replied: “A scandal.

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...