European leaders are a fickle lot. After years of moaning about former European Council President Charles Michel – whom they ...

Germany’s conservative bloc and the Social Democrats agreed to deepen talks over forming a new government, a step forward as ...

Simon Toubeau foresees Friedrich Merz, Ursula von der Leyen, and Manfred Weber boosting the bloc’s security and economy.

It’s been a deeply sobering and troubling few weeks for people who care about the future of human rights, democracy, and the ...

Climate activists fear the worst when Germany's conservatives and Social Democrats begin to thrash out a joint climate policy ...

A friendly meeting between President Trump, Elon Musk, and Viktor Orbán was the culmination of years of increasingly close ...

The evidence suggests traditional parties that ape the populist radical right’s policies risk boosting their rivals instead ...

Germany needs a new government fast. The center-right CDU/CSU and the center-left SPD are set to hammer out an agreement by Easter, but there are several sticking points.

Sir Keir Starmer has welcomed an EU move to increase defence spending that was decided at an emergency summit in Brussels on ...

While Merz is already setting the scene for his chancellery with an unprecedented, debt-funded investment announcement, ...

Climate activists fear the worst when Germany's conservatives and Social Democrats begin to thrash out a joint climate policy ...

While right-leaning politicians and conservatives have been winning elections, including to the European Parliament, a trend ...