Once trapped in communist East Germany, bustling Leipzig is now a city of business and of culture. It’s also a city of great ...

The state premier of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has called on the new government of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to take ...

The leader of a secessionist group styled as the "Kingdom of Germany" was arrested with supporters for allegedly running a ...

In a wide-ranging speech in the Bundestag, the German Chancellor outlined his new government's priorities, including a plan ...

The swearing in of the center-right candidate Friedrich Merz as Germany’s next chancellor was considered a formality, but he ...

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that threatened to hobble his new government.

Friedrich Merz is poised to become chancellor at a challenging time for Germany. But in a first round of voting in Parliament ...

German lawmakers are set to vote Tuesday on whether conservative leader Friedrich Merz will become the country’s 10th ...

He has never held a top position in government, yet he has become Germany's tenth chancellor. DW takes a look at the life of ...

Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal democratic basic order,” ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on his conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) to focus more on the east of the ...