Although the return of the CDU to the German chancellery might seem to indicate a return to the Centrist times of moderates like Merkel, make no mistake, it is a hard jerk to Germany’s Right ...

Friedrich Merz, Christian Democratic Union party chairman ... a trained lawyer who saw his ascent derailed by former ...

The far-right AfD leads in a German poll for the first time ever. Can the incoming chancellor reverse the trend?

Lawmakers from the incoming chancellor’s CDU party signal an end to the “firewall” that saw mainstream politicians refuse to ...

In Stuttgart, the Black Zero statue was created by the state finance ministry of Baden-Württemberg in 2014 to celebrate the fact that it had reached a balanced budget several times in the previous ...

Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said on ...

A group of senior Conservative MPs has met with German sister parties to discuss how to recover from their 2024 general ...

Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion.

In the shadow of the far-right’s rise, the EU is tightening its migration policy with stricter border controls and ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America and the author of The Abandonment of the West: ...

He has a checkered history in German politics — from challenging Angela Merkel to causing controversy by aligning with the far right. Friedrich Merz, chairman of the conservative Christian ...