The German election is set to reshape policy and markets. CDU and AfD push competing economic and immigration plans, while investors bet on a CDU-led government.

This same incrementalism runs through much of what Mr Merz says. Even if talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin lead ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and has become a ...

Russian political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya warned Putin was fully prepared for the talks to fail, as the Kremlin believes ...

In less than two weeks' time, up to 60 million eleigible voters in Germany will head to the polls. DW Africa takes a tour across the country to explore what issues weigh on voters' hearts and minds.

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

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insists he would' never' cooperate with the far right in the way he says his rival Friedrich ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has accused his main rival in Germany’s upcoming election of “constant about turns,” while Friedrich Merz, the opposition leader and front-runner, accused Scholz of leaving ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz used his likely final statement in parliament before the election to intensify his attacks on ...

Bochmann has worked at the Zwickau plant for nearly three decades, most recently in quality control, before being elected by ...

Germany's conservative parties and far-right AfD lead in the polls, with the CDU’s Friedrich Merz likely to become chancellor ...