Bojan Pancevski is The Wall Street Journal’s chief European political correspondent, covering European and global affairs. He ...

Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. Merkel's comments came one day after her centre-right party, the ...

Bertrand Benoit is the Germany bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal.

During coalition negotiations, politicians from Germany's future governing parties butted heads over the question of ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader, Angela Merkel ...

For the first time, Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) is leading in a German poll. A quarter of all voters are backing it. Just a decade ago the party, which was formed to protest against Germany’s ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined thousands who marched to ... against hatred and violence and for a cosmopolitan Germany which respects and protects the freedom of expression and religion'.

In Stuttgart, the Black Zero statue was created by the state finance ministry of Baden-Württemberg in 2014 to celebrate the fact that it had reached a balanced budget several times in the previous ...

Germany's conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats are on track to come to an agreement to form a coalition government around midday on Wednesday, people familiar with the negotiations told ...

The deal caps weeks of haggling between Mr Merz and the Social Democratic Party. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.