Collective bargaining in the German public sector has again demonstrated that the working class is facing a political ...

Three goals are being pursued with Germany’s massive rearmament offensive: Breaking free from military dependence on the US, ...

“Freedom,” by Angela Merkel with Beate Baumann (St. Martin ... daughter of one of the lexicographers, and spent her youth sitting under the table in the Scriptorium while words were sorted ...

Germany, the pre-eminent European country for the past century, third in world GDP, the biggest economy in Europe and pivotal to the fortunes of the European Union, voted to elect a new parliament ...

Friedrich Merz, migration hard-liner and longtime rival of Angela Merkel, is expected to become ... eventually leading the local branch of the party's youth organization. In 1989 he took on ...

Readers write in from Gurugram, Hooghly, Siliguri, Madhya Pradesh, West Midnapore, Lucknow, Navi Mumbai, and Calcutta ...

By the time he joined the Christian Democrats’ youth organization at age 17 ... But the top prize was blocked by his longstanding rival, Angela Merkel. After losing the leadership to her ...

Speaking during celebrations to commemorate German Unity Day last month, Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the importance of historical awareness. Young Germans in particular need to learn more about ...

He's taking his party further to the right The first thing you need to know about Merz is that he and former chancellor Angela Merkel were longstanding rivals ... Merz was in the Catholic youth ...

Germany’s “Great Coalitions” are getting smaller. In the (then West German) Federal Republic in the 1980s, the centrist major parties gathered over 85% of the vote between them. In 2025, the former ...

In 2018, former German president Angela Merkel joined her French counterpart ... and I don't think the youth will be up for it. “The question is who's actually going to defend us if it gets ...