Although the chancellor is prone to exaggerate the scale of his modest proposals, his dwindling band of supporters appreciate his commitment to them. Yet navigating the reforms through the Bundestag ...

German economic think tanks urged Chancellor Friedrich Merz's coalition on Thursday to stay the course on policy reforms after heavy losses in regional elections fuelled speculation the measures could ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz may have survived the triumph of the far right in this month's state elections in eastern Germany and Berlin but the shock to his coalition could force ​him to water down his ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz issued a stark warning Monday, declaring that Jewish life in Germany “is no longer safe” amid a surge in antisemitism. “The fact that Jewish life in Germany is no ...

Debacle: ruling CDU failed to reach the 5% threshold and is out of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional parliament.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is standing by his vow to stay in office after his party suffered two more regional election defeats and was voted out of a state legislature in a humiliating first.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces growing political pressure after calling the latest state election results a "disaster ...

The CDU’s wipeout in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has dealt a well-deserved blow to the flip-flopping chancellor.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz reinforced his message that he’ll see through his reform agenda as Germany’s leader after his Christian Democratic Union crashed out of a regional parliament for the first ...

Germany's hard-Right AfD today predicted that Chancellor Friedrich Merz will be out of office before the end of the year, a day after his centre-Right CDU party suffered two bruising state election ...

AfD surges in German state elections as Merz’s CDU suffers historic losses, prompting AfD leaders to predict his early exit ...

The final results underlined the extent of what Merz conceded was a “disaster” in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.