Merz, 69, promises fundamental policy shifts, including stricter migration controls and market-friendly reforms to revive ...

Higher politicisation coupled with feelings of being ignored is pushing more young people out of the center.  Read more at straitstimes.com.

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

Concern is growing over the far-right Alternative for Germany party’s rise ahead of the German election. Its U.S. supporters ...

Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a ...

But hey, if nothing else, the new incoming chancellor can at least enjoy (for now) the performance of German equities, which have been on a bender so far this year. The German word “Zeitwende” ...

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

Regardless of the outcome, today's German election marks a rejection of the centrist political establishment and a shift to ...

For the first time since the fall of the Third Reich 80 years ago, there is a real possibility that a party with direct ...

Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor ...

Myself, I live in Germany, where I work as a writer, concert violinist, and broker of rare violin bows. I studied violin ...

Constant incitement against refugees and migrants, far-right conspiracy theories about “left-wing elites” or the denial of pandemics—in Germany, all of this has been rendered socially acceptable in ...