True to its Gaullist legacy, France has always been wary of becoming too dependent on the Western world’s great superpower.

While Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is already plagued by criticism and sinking poll numbers at home, his EU ...

The proposal is both surprising, given France was an outspoken opponent of TTIP — a proposed transatlantic trade deal that ...

BERLIN — The German parliament plans to meet on May 6 to elect Friedrich Merz as the country's next leader, if all the ...

There’s a German saying: “Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm.” (Or: The early bird catches the worm.) It underscores the ...

In first sit-down interviews since securing a deal to form the next German government, Merz lays out his foreign policy ...

Germany’s incoming leader Friedrich Merz quickly passed a massive fiscal package, representing a seismic shift for the ...

For years, Germany had been seen as the leading light of Europe — both politically and economically powerful, and with a figurehead in the form of Angela Merkel who was instantly recognizable on the ...

European allies cheered the CDU leader's announcement, while a key would-be coalition partner appeared to try to argue ...

The Russian government would see the delivery and use of this weapon as a declaration of war. No one can guarantee that it will not respond with attacks on German targets.

Leader of the CDU/CSU bloc that won the German parliamentary elections and candidate for the post of German Chancellor ...

Germany's conservative CDU party and its social-democrat counterpart agreed on a coalition deal, but how does it look at home ...