Germany's former chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who has since fallen from grace over his refusal to cut ties with Russia, was ...

And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...

Leaders of Europe’s two most powerful countries ramp up EU’s pro-business, anti-green push by calling for repeal of due diligence rule.

The German Social Democratc Party (SPD) has pushed to eliminate Italy from the strategic countries, foreseen in the ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is in Rome and has met Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni. Meanwhile, the business-focused FDP party has a new leader after a poor election result. DW has more.

In his maiden speech as chancellor to Germany's Bundestag, Merz tried to position himself as a unifying centrist figure.

Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal democratic basic order,” ...

Although Friedrich Merz has big ambitions for Germany’s international role, significant domestic pressures remain and will constrain his government’s room for manoeuvre.

The AfD has issued threats of a "war against the government," complains of a "knife jihad" on German streets and demands that millions be "remigrated." DER SPIEGEL has looked inside the 1,108-page ...

As Germany rearms, Patrick Howse visits the eastern state of Saxony, where the country's cultural elite are now also taking ...

Spending 5% of GDP on defense would mean over $220 billion dollars a year for Germany. New Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the ...

In his first speech to the Bundestag, the new chancellor emphasized the rearmament of the country and briefly addressed ...