Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday said that Berlin supports relaxing strict EU fiscal rules to let member states ramp up defence spending as he sought to establish his European ...

EU members are bound by spending rules obliging them to keep the public deficit below 3% of economic output and debt at 60% ...

Friedrich Merz secured Germany’s chancellorship Tuesday after overcoming an initial parliamentary defeat that had thrown his and Germany’s political future ...

The Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution has also recognised the AfD as an organisation with far-right ...

In an extraordinary day of political turbulence in Berlin, Friedrich Merz, the long-time leader of Germany’s Christian ...

Germany's new government said Wednesday it would reject most asylum seekers at its borders as conservative Chancellor ...

His countrymen, he declares, will have to ‘engage’ with the AfD, ‘factually and on substance.’ ...

Merz is now facing a myriad of challenges, including keeping his coalition government united and boosting Germany's ...

According to Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko, the challenges facing Germany today "are influencing the internal political landscape, shifting the balance of power among political forces, and ...

The so-called “Office for the Protection of the Constitution” alleges that AfD undermines the free democratic order and violates the principle of human dignity by denying migrants the same rights as ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz was due to travel to Paris and Warsaw on Wednesday after winning a nail-biting ...

The incident once again highlights the ailing infrastructure in the German capital and the impact of decades of cutbacks by ...