The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

The German elections will take place this weekend amid a dire economic backdrop in Europe’s largest economy. The German economy has shrunk in each of the past two years, meaning German GDP is now ...

A fiscal mechanism known as the debt brake, which strictly limits government borrowing, has become a fault line in German politics with the last government’s collapse blamed on the issue. The world’s ...

J udged by the din of Russian propaganda and the despair among Europeans, Vladimir Putin has never been closer to winning his ...

Welcome back to the Money blog. We've kicked off the week by exploring what it's like to be a teacher - and it's not all lovely long holidays. Elsewhere, a quarter of employers say they're planning to ...