Inciting hatred against migrants, rearmament, and cuts in social provisions stood at the centre of the recent prime-time ...

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

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.

Germany's conservative parties and far-right AfD lead in the polls, with the CDU’s Friedrich Merz likely to become chancellor ...

As the two frontrunners in Germany’s general election prepare to go head to head in the first televised debate, the former chancellor’s intervention is a sign of the concern within the political ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

German voters decide on 23 February who will run their next government, with Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats.

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

More than 200,000 protesters have demonstrated in Munich against far-right extremism ahead of the German general election ...

Rallies against right-wing extremism and cooperation with the AfD took place again in numerous German cities on Saturday.