The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...

One of the top issues in upcoming German elections is migration, which has helped fuel the rise of the anti-immigrant, ...

Even if Merz stumbles across the finish line and secures a coalition government, the death knell for Christian democracy may ...

LOS ANGELES, USA - Newsaktuell - 31 January 2025 - High levels of governance have masked a slow decline in Germany, with ...

Friedrich Merz hopes to lure away AfD supporters, but will he alienate voters in the ideological middle?

The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to ...

The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far-right has hurt his ...

Germany's Merz faced a firestorm over the weekend after he broke a longstanding taboo for dealing with the far right ...

After years of pandering to far-right talking points, Germany is on the brink of voting in the AfD — and it only has itself ...

Centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Greens and multiple civil society and church groups denounced the vote as a breach of a taboo in post-war Germany against any cooperation with extremist parties ...

Last week Merz made it clear that he did not mind if the AfD voted for his proposals on curbing migration. The far-right party voted on both pieces of legislation Merz proposed, helping push the ...

Friedrich Merz, CDU candidate for chancellor and CDU federal chairman speaks at the 37th federal party conference of the CDU ...