Berlin (CNN) — The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing that is set to super-charge the country’s military spending.

Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the ...

"I will not betray my country, but I may betray certain orders should push come to shove. There are lines I will not cross." ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked a turning point, expanding Germany’s artistic influence and cementing Berlin’s status as a global hotspot for artists in the 1990s.

A 40-year-old German from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate has been detained in relation to the car ramming attack on Monday, which killed at least two people and injured 10 others. During a ...

It took place against a background of growing uncertainty over the future of Ukraine and Europe's alliance with the United States. Germany is the most populous country in the 27-nation European ...

AfD co-leader and chancellor candidate Alice Weidel waves a German flag at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, on February 23, 2025, after the German election results showed her party ...

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Germany’s final election results have been declared and Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU alliance-led conservatives have won the 2025 polls, though short of the 30% vote-share they had expected. The far right ...

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 ...

AfD co-leader Alice Weidel waves a German flag at the party's headquarters after the elections on Sunday in Berlin. - Michael Probst/AP ...