The German economy contracted more than expected in the final quarter of last year, spurring again recession fears, as Europe ...

The German economy contracted more than expected in the final quarter of last year, spurring again recession fears, as Europe ...

Election posters at a street in Duesseldorf, Germany, show the top candidates for chancellor, Robert Habeck of the Green Party, Friedrich Merz of the CDU and Olaf Scholz for the SPD, from left, prior ...

Polls show conservative leader Friedrich Merz’s Union leading ahead of the Feb. 23 election with around 30% support, while ...

Friedrich Merz leaned the right-wing AfD party to push through measures to restrict immigration.

Former chancellor’s intervention exposes deep rift within country’s conservatives over how to handle the far right’s rising ...

Silence, stigma, shame, high costs and an odyssey of legal conditions await women seeking to end their pregnancy in Germany. Abortion is illegal here and exempt from punishment only under specific ...

The European Central Bank is cutting its key interest rate, a step to boost an economy that’s struggling to grow as consumers ...

BERLIN — With Germany’s election less than a month away, center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown cold water on the prospect of reviving the country’s traditional grand coalition — bluntly ...

Conservatives have cooperated with the far-right AfD for the first time, amid growing support from the tech billionaire.

A non-binding motion to restrict immigration has sparked outrage after citizens said the conservative CDU/CSU broke a promise not to work with the far-right AfD. Protesters in Berlin gathered outside ...

Germany will introduce permanent border controls and will send back to other countries all foreigners who illegally cross the ...