If polls are correct, Olaf Scholz’s successor could be the 69-year-old leader of the Christian Democratic Union. He is ...

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Migration was already set to dominate Germany’s election campaign, which starts in earnest in the New Year. But Friday ...

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Elon Musk, the billionaire whose support for Donald Trump has given him the president-elect's ear, is throwing his support ...

Friedrich Merz is a longtime rival of Angela Merkel who has tried to move their party back to the right.

Opposition CDU and governing SPD offer starkly competing visions as they prepare to unveil election manifestos ...

Ten weeks away from elections and with a double-digit lead over his closest rival's party, conservative leader Friedrich Merz ...

The conservative leader’s attacks signal the next government may be just as discordant as the one that recently fell.

Europe’s largest economy and normally a pillar of stability is facing snap elections next year after Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor shares his party’s pro-EU and Atlanticist instincts, but also the country’s wider reluctance ...