The bot network, dubbed "Geist" by researchers working with Germany's Robert Bosch Foundation, carries anti-conservative, ...

Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz said on Thursday the U.S. was at risk of sliding into longer-term authoritarian ...

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.

Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz are pictured in tv studio ahead of a debate in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025.

Germany’s likely next chancellor wants to reboot ties with France, do a free-trade deal with Donald Trump and get tougher on ...

We are now a few days away from the German general election (February 23), which is becoming even more significant in the ...

German voters head to the polls in a winter election on Sunday but may not have a new government until the spring.The confident frontrunner Friedrich Merz has said he's aiming for an Easter deadline ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz, Germany's likely next chancellor, told POLITICO he's "very worried" the European Union is heading ...

PETER SPARDING is Senior Vice President and Director of Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and ...

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

Germans will greet the next government with the stoniest of scepticism. Thorsten Faas, a political scientist at the Free ...