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

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

Germany’s probable next leader talks about Ukraine, saving the economy and beating the AfD in an exclusive interview ...

On European issues, the leader of the Christian Democrats and likely future chancellor of Germany intends to lay boundaries ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz, from the left-leaning Social Democrats, and his main rival, the conservative Christian Democrat Friedrich Merz ... such as Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia and Latvia.

To restore much-needed German impetus in Europe, the country’s next government must find a new sense of urgency and common ...

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February ... Mr Merz promises to energise the “Weimar triangle" with France and Poland, musing on military co-operation ...

At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s ...

A crisis-ridden, politically unstable Germany is coping with a brash and unpredictable Trump presidency. Germans look set to ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz from the left-leaning SPD and his main rival Friedrich Merz from the conservative CSU/CDU bloc ...