IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...

They line up by the hundreds to meet recruiters at schools in provincial towns and convention halls in large cities, some ...

Germany's centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday accused his conservative election rival of planning an immigration crackdown that would "bury Europe".

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his likely successor, Friedrich Merz, promised no collaboration with the extreme right on ...

Carbon Brief tracks commitments made by the main parties in Germany's 2025 election, across a range of issues related to climate and energy.

Reminders of Germany’s Nazi past are everywhere in the city of Pforzheim. Small brass “stumble stones” dotted through the streets mark the homes of Jewish people who were deported and murdered.

Jobs, incomes and Germany's flagging economy are major focuses for the country's political parties ahead of elections this ...

It is not a question of distributing the 35,000 job losses “fairly” between east and west Germany, but of preventing them.

Framed as the troublemaker in an unpopular coalition, the FDP is mostly polling below Germany’s electoral threshold of 5%. If ...

Germany's neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP) have a long history of being junior partner in federal governments. This year, however they could fail to win parliamentary representation altogether.