The prospective next German government’s plans to enable higher defense spending by loosening strict debt rules and to set up ...

BERLIN (AP) — Mnyaka Sururu Mboro is still driven by the promise he gave his grandmother when he left Tanzania for Germany almost 50 years ago: to bring back for a proper burial the head of a local ...

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

Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...

FRANKFURT, March 4 (Reuters) - Germany's natural gas usage could fall some 3% to 7% by 2030 from current levels while it remains central to the country's energy supply, consultants McKinsey said ...

Berlin — Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation's second-largest.

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 ...

The mood at the far right’s election party in Berlin was ecstatic as the exit polls first flashed onto the screens, with people cheering and waving Germany flags. For his part, Christian ...

Attendees brought their own German flags to wave in the crowd—a rare sight at German political rallies. Among the John Denver, songs of such autotuned AfD fervor played that I wondered if they ...