Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a ...

To immediately free up budgetary leeway to finance his country's rearmament, the incoming chancellor plans to vote in a ...

The European Union is getting good at adapting to unprecedented circumstances. Over the last five years, the 27 member ...

After securing the largest share in the German election, Conservative party leader Friedrich Merz has met French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. They discussed European security in the face of a ...

Friedrich Merz is poised to become Germany's next chancellor. He's long been a transatlanticist, but has already made clear he's no fan of Donald Trump.

Debate is building over just how deep the Trump administration’s antagonism runs, and whether the real goal is to destroy the ...

Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics Podcast, Carl Cannon spoke with historian and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Liana Fix ...

Christian Democrats won with their leader, Friedrich Merz, expected to be next chancellor of Germany. But the far right and ...

German election winner and likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson met in Berlin on ...

U.K. native Timothy Garton Ash is one of the world's most influential historians. He discusses what Germany’s «shocking» ...

Shunned by liberal Germans, anti-immigration AfD is now the second strongest party in Germany. It's also favored by President ...