German state leaders are backing Friedrich Merz despite uncertainty about his future.
Powerful state leaders from Friedrich Merz’s party have rallied behind him as speculation grows that his time in office may…
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Firewall breached: has Friedrich Merz destroyed 'democracy's last chance'?
A catastrophe. A 9.0 earthquake. A five-alarm fire. A bitter rejection of Germany’s joyful reunification three decades ago, and a…
Merz has accused the AfD of pursuing an "ethnic cleansing" policy and has canceled a call with Trump.
Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has accused the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) of pushing an “ethnic cleansing” agenda through its…
Friedrich Merz is running out of time. But that's not the real reason the AfD's victory is so earth-shaking.
The shock of the far right’s sweeping victory in a German state election was still echoing on Sunday, but not…
The far-right AfD party is expected to win by a large margin in a key state election in Germany.
Polls have opened in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, where the far-right, anti-immigration party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is…
The shadow of the AfD looms over German democracy – but I still believe in my adopted country.
Two events are coming up that will shape how I feel about Germany. One will be all over the news…
Reports say a cache of guns found in a German forest is believed to be connected to Russia.
Germany is seeking to extradite a suspect from Romania after a hidden stash of weapons was found in a forest…
Germany has approved plans to ease restrictions on its intelligence agencies, marking what officials describe as a security "revolution."
The German government has approved a draft law aimed at removing many of the restrictions placed on its intelligence agencies…
'A symbol of resistance': the battle to save a treehouse built on no man's land beside the Berlin Wall.
Sometimes, history’s currents converge in one place. In Berlin, one of the most fascinating spots is a small traffic island…
The German chancellor picked the pope's encyclical on AI over a fast-paced thriller for their holiday reading.
Summer is usually seen as the time for fast-paced thrillers and easy, mindless page-turners—the kind of beach reads that end…