IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has accused his main rival in Germany’s upcoming election of “constant about turns,” while Friedrich ...

Dogged by protesters, but apparently safe from damage in the polls, Friedrich Merz is putting a failed immigration gambit ...

Sending workers abroad has been at the core of development strategies of Asian countries like the Philippines and Bangladesh ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become the country's next chancellor, has vowed to work ...

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...

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

Mr Trump's victory had "changed the world in just a few weeks," said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a rally where ...

A crisis-ridden, politically unstable Germany is coping with a brash and unpredictable Trump presidency. Germans look set to alter course and push for more independence after snap elections on Feb. 23 ...

Millions are set to go to the polls in key energy economies in 2025 as politicians seek to woo electorates with security, the cost of living, exploitation of natural resources and decarbonisation ...

The shots fired in last May’s assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico were not the first -or the only- to target a politician whose authoritarian drift has not stopped him from ...