Germany’s likely next chancellor wants to reboot ties with France, do a free-trade deal with Donald Trump and get tougher on ...
Four candidates are bidding to be Germany’s next leader in Sunday’s election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, the ...
Nahal Toosi is POLITICO’s senior foreign affairs correspondent. She has reported on war, genocide and political chaos in a career that has taken her around the world. Germans delivered a major ...
Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces its biggest economic and diplomatic crises in decades and Europe ...
Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...
However, owing to a constitutional amendment brought in by a previous coalition government, public spending in Germany is ...
Friedrich Merz Targeted by ... illustrating their posts with AI pictures of Merz. Some posts portray Germany as being stuck in a spiral of economic decline that can only be halted if it starts ...
Germans have given establishment parties one last chance. Right-wing populists wait on the sidelines. PARIS — The good news ...