Germany’s highest-stakes election in years is paving the way for a pivot to increased spending, with markets predicting the end of an era for constrained fiscal policy. The euro rose as much as ...

Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters/Amanda R. Gray/U.S. Navy ‘Germany is back,” incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared Friday, and it may even be true. He was announcing an unprecedented ...

Germany is set to hold the crucial federal election on Sunday (February 23) to elect its next chancellor. The snap polls were called by chancellor Olaf Scholz when his coalition government fell ...

Young activists are forming a new core of Germany’s nationalist, anti-immigrant party. They are building on the party’s base, which has traditionally been older, blue-collar men. These young ...

Chinese car-makers seek to boost sales in Europe as Chinese market slows No decision taken yet as BYD weighs labour costs, productivity Germany's new government expected to encourage auto sector ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

By David Leonhardt Germany yesterday became the latest country ... Migrants deported from the U.S. and detained in a Panama City hotel have held up a sign asking for help through a window.

Despite the Christian Democrat Union (CDU) victory in the election, forming Germany’s next coalition government will be challenging. What can we expect from the outcome? What alliances will ...

Artworks by Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso are among hundreds in a state collection in Bavaria that were knowingly ... in public and private collections in Germany, there are strict procedures ...

Germany’s “people’s parties” might be in danger of losing the support of the people. The Social Democratic Party (SPD), whose three-party coalition collapsed last year after three years in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The leader of the center-right CDU party will become the next German chancellor. LONDON -- Before the final votes in Germany's election were even counted, Friedrich Merz, the leader of the center ...