Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.

Lawmakers in Germany took a step to loosen a long-standing limit on government debt. The move aims to allow the ...

The Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) have launched a massive rearmament programme, aiming to ...

Middle powers, like Germany and South Africa, need to step up their collaboration while striving for a global order based on ...

The Greens have declared themselves ready to support the gigantic rearmament programme proposed by the incoming grand ...

Donald Trump is the exemplar of a vigorous president and what our system is capable of producing. He is the polar opposite of Joe Biden. Now Germany must locate a similar no-nonsense, ...

In Germany, coalition governments are typically formed through a two-step process: parties first engage in exploratory talks ...

Election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU, its Bavarian sister party CSU, and the Social Democrats (SPD) have taken a major step toward forming a coalition government, the heads of the parties ...

Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the ...

Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party likely, but the rise of the far-right AfD party and its ...

Matthew Brookes discusses the recent German election, and warns that increasing polarisation could lead to the return of extreme politics in Germany.

The centre-right and centre-left parties seeking to hammer out a coalition deal following last month's parliamentary elections in Germany are merely paving the way for the far right, maverick populist ...