Such talks often drag on for weeks if not months in Germany, but Merz is in a hurry to reach a deal with Europe's biggest economy facing economic malaise and an upheaval in relations with the U.S.

President Donald Trump has a plan to save Europe, and the results of Sunday’s election in Germany show it’s working. The center-right Christian Democrats won the most seats in the Bundestag, and the ...

Germany voted in a federal election that saw massive growth in support for the far-right AfD, resurgence of the socialist Die ...

Economically troubled Germany just held elections and will soon have a new government. The conservative Christian Democratic ...

In news from Europe, Austria’s three main centrist parties reached a deal Thursday to form a new ruling coalition without ...

The results are in after Germany’s elections, but what’s at stake for the rest of Europe? In this edition of ARTE Europe Weekly, we focus on the continent’s economic powerhouse, asking how Germany’s ...

Like the Global South, the West is not primarily a geographical notion, for its European and North American trunks have ...

In the smallest town in Germany, just one out of 228 eligible voters cast their ballot for Alternative for Germany even as ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) held "open ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started exploratory talks on a possible coalition government ...

Should an AfD-led Germany withdraw from NATO, the alliance would surely collapse, as would an EU without Germany. Instead, a ...

Opposition to the status quo must not be monopolized by the right-wing extremist visions of parties like Alternative für ...