Germany will eventually have to spend more than 2% of economic output on defence but must first reform its procurement system to get more bang for its buck, opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who is ...

The chairman of the party and fraction of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz, gives a press conference in ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz has demanded fundamental changes to migration policy and a dramatic increase in ...

Germany’s opposition leader has vowed to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up ...

The conservative leader wants to impose strict border controls after knife killings in Aschaffenburg this week.

Aschaffenburg Mayor Jürgen Herzing said he was "shaken up" after a deadly stabbing in his city and urged calm as the attack ramps up Germany's debate on migration ahead of elections on February 23. ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative front-runner in the race for Germany’s chancellorship, called for a radical overhaul of the ...

German voters head to the polls in a winter election next month, but likely will not have a new government until well into the spring.

After years in which Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been accused of treading lightly on European and world stages, ...

Tucking into beer and pretzels, the frontrunner to become Germany's next chancellor, conservative millionaire Friedrich Merz, ...

Donald Trump's return to the White House has darkened the mood in Germany a month before elections, as multiple crises shake ...

The U.N. chief ratcheted up his warning about climate change and said the world’s thirst for fossil fuels is a “Frankenstein monster” that spares no one, while calling for gr ...