BERLIN (Reuters) - Friedrich Merz, hitherto favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, suffered a blow three weeks before ...

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

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

You have to make a decision. Do you want to have the party of [Chancellor] Olaf Scholz and all those eunuchs? Or are you on ...

Horst Koehler, former German president from 2004 to 2010 and a respected global policymaker with a particular interest in Africa, died on Saturday after a short illness at the age of 81, the federal ...

The CDU relied on AfD to pass a motion for the controversial bill, breaking a decades-long tradition of excluding the ...

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

The bill had the support of both Germany's conservatives and the far-right Alternative for Germany, which are leading in the ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank ...

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 ...

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...

The German parliament rejected an opposition draft law on tightening immigration policy on Friday, two days after the ...