Germany has a complicated system: voters get two votes, one for the candidate in their own constituency, and another for a party's electoral list. There's also a minimum 5% threshold for a party to ...

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...

Two weeks today, Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative CDU party in Germany, will most likely be one step closer to ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the favourite to become the country's next chancellor, accused incumbent Olaf Scholz of failing to recognize the poor state of the German economy, as the ...

As the two frontrunners in Germany’s general election prepare to go head to head in the first televised debate, the former chancellor’s intervention is a sign of the concern within the political ...

The frontrunner in the race to run Germany is Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democrats (CDU) are up to 10 points ahead in ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

These are dramatic days in the usually dull world of German politics. Last Wednesday, midway through a fiercely fought ...

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

Germany's ex-chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in Thursday on a controversy flaring ahead of February elections, slamming her party successor for relying on far-right support on the flashpoint issue of ...

As part of its Confidence to Be platform, Merz Aesthetics surveyed 15,000 adults from around the world who have had an aesthetic treatment in the past or are open to having one in the near future.