IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

German elections, as the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) continues to grow in popularity, although it is unlikely ...

Ahead of the February 23rd federal election, the party is on 4 per cent in all polls – one point short of the 5 per cent ...

Reminders of Germany’s Nazi past are everywhere in the city of Pforzheim. Small brass “stumble stones” dotted through the streets mark the homes of Jewish people who were deported and murdered.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insists he would 'never' cooperate with the far right in the way he says his rival Friedrich ...