Risk-averse leadership is holding back Europe’s largest economy, say historians and economists.

At the most newsworthy Munich Security Conference in recent memory last weekend, Germany’s likely next chancellor did all he ...

France's influential opposition leader, Marine Le Pen, whose party is also considered far-right, has distanced herself from ...

Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

Musk won AfD a massive new audience, and JD Vance added support. That brought the party outsized attention, but the impact in ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz said on Thursday the U.S. was at risk of sliding into longer-term authoritarian ...

On a wet evening in Suhl, in the former East Germany, a smattering of youthful faces were among hundreds lining up to hear ...

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.

The good news is that Germany can afford to splurge. At 62% of GDP, the country’s public debt is half that of America’s (see ...

Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany's chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...

In the wake of Trump’s victory—and his administration’s transformation from staunch ally to sneering adversary—Germany’s ...

The AfD casts itself as an attractive option for Jews worried about Muslim migration. Germany’s main Jewish group isn’t ...