His window of opportunity is real, but it could start closing within a few months. A debt-fueled spending package — which ...

Angela Merkel or Gerhard Schröder? Which of the former politicians who served as chancellor before the current officeholder, ...

In more bizarre circumstances campaign posters are placed right on top of expensively erected outdoor advertising, in total disregard of the investment of the owners of the space.” ...

Berlin considers strengthening investment screening powers to stop any future investors reactivating gas pipelines ...

In many parts of eastern Germany, showing Nazi symbols is no longer seen as a provocation. Authorities are warning that more ...

Over the years, the outspoken rock stars have often been labelled as western do-gooders or as celebrities with white saviour ...

Confirming voters’ fears is the best hope the demoralised Coalition has of putting itself quickly back into a competitive ...

NATO’s just-completed summit in The Hague came at a time of extraordinary tension. Since returning to the White House, Donald ...

Western allies have sought post-war German rearmament before. While German defence spending has been miserly for decades, it ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz meets US President Donald Trump in the White House for the first time. It might be the beginning of a terrible friendship. How did Merz's predecessors cope with the ...

Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, during a tour of Israel's holocaust memorial, accidentally extinguished the eternal flame that burns in memory of the six million Jews exterminated by the ...

While welcoming Schroeder's proposals as a "significant contribution" to a debate that is due to lead to reforms of the EU by 2004, Vedrine said it would be "dangerous" to disturb the balance of ...