Germany’s outgoing government is the border checks it imposed on all its frontiers last fall by another six months as it attempts to cut the number of migrants arriving in the country ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz from the left-leaning SPD and his main rival Friedrich Merz from the conservative CSU/CDU bloc ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is hosting Alice Weidel, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's candidate for ...

The bill’s defeat — after Merz secured the passage of a similar motion on Wednesday — suggests that some of his own ...

In their first and only one-on-one live TV debate ahead of the 23 February vote, centre-left Scholz - who is hoping for a ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused election rival Friedrich Merz of having broken his word by accepting support ...

As Germany enters the final few weeks of its election campaign, the man poised to be the next chancellor has doubled down on ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The German federal election on February 23 will determine the fate of Europe’s largest economy, with ...

According to its election manifesto, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) wants Germany to leave the EU and abolish the euro. It denies the existence of man-made climate change and ...

As the German election campaign heats up, the traditional firewall between the mainstream parties and the far-right Alternative for Germany is being tested. Friedrich Merz, the Christian ...