Germany's economy is in desperate need of foreign labor, but a political environment hostile to all kinds of immigrants makes ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is set to become the next Chancellor of Germany ...

The votes were still being counted Sunday but the results were clear: Germany’s conservative Friedrich Merz is the new ...

Four candidates are bidding to be Germany’s next leader in Sunday’s election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, the ...

Exit polls suggest that Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the conservative Christian Democrats who has vowed to bring ...

Friedrich Merz has expressed a desire to ‘strengthen Europe as quickly as possible’ in the face of a growing rift between EU ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

Merkel collaborated especially well with France’s Emmanuel Macron, a passionate fellow Europeanist, communicating a vision of a united Europe and its core values to the rest of the world. Dubbed “ ...

Merz, the likely next chancellor of Germany, has warned that Europe can no longer count on the U.S., which he said had become "largely indifferent" to the continent's fate. His comments follow the ...

Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York. His focus is domestic U.S. politics, but he has experience covering Foreign Affairs, Business and Technology. Peter joined Newsweek in ...

Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, is on course for a stunning result in Sunday’s ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...