Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

As Germans prepare to vote on Feb. 23, an almighty argument over whether mainstream parties should work with the ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

It was perhaps the most dramatic week for German politics in decades as the Bundestag on Friday held three nail-biting votes ...

Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...

Once little-known among his fellow Germans, Mr Kohler became a popular head of state, often positioning himself as an ...

Germany's former president Horst Koehler, who served as head of state from 2004 to 2010, died on Saturday aged 81 after a ...

In a dramatic swing to the right, Friedrich Merz’s CDU is proposing Germany breaches EU law by closing its borders to ...

Ever since the end of World War II, Germany's mainstream political parties have vowed to not work with extremist right-wing ...

The German parliament has narrowly rejected a law to tighten up asylum measures. The controversy over the law, and how it could have been passed with support from the far right AfD, have rocked German ...

BERLIN – Germany's parliament is expected to vote Friday on an opposition bill calling for tougher rules on migration that ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has put demands for a more restrictive approach to migration at the centre of his campaign for the February election.