Yet behind closed doors, Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state, has sought to reassure nervous European allies that talks with Russian negotiators this week did not represent an abrupt departure ...

In a survey out last year, women aged 14 to 29 reported significantly less support for Merz’s party than their male peers ...

Ursula von der Leyen is about to face the most serious challenge to her leadership since she became European Commission ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz said on Thursday the U.S. was at risk of sliding into longer-term authoritarian ...

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

A network of more than 700 fake social media accounts has sprung up in the last week of Germany's election campaign, ...

In the wake of Trump’s victory—and his administration’s transformation from staunch ally to sneering adversary—Germany’s ...

Friedrich Merz is on the precipice of becoming Germany’s next chancellor. If successful, his conservatism and quest for new ...

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

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union is favored to replace Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party as ...

A new poll of German voters released on Thursday shows the centre-right opposition bloc still firmly in the lead, but points ...

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.