Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

Germany will hold a snap national election on February 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition.

Police has said that the man from Afghanistan who allegedly drove his car into a crowd of people in Munich, had evidently ...

A suspected Islamic attack in Munich has ignited fierce political debate on security and migration just over a week before ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz believes that he will can return to office following the election on February 23. The incumbent ...

Germany's constitution stipulates that the state should only spend as much as it collects. But as the budget deficit grows, some parties are calling for reform.

The margin of error for individual polls is estimated from the poll’s sample size and the number of eligible German voters ...

At least 28 people were injured, some of them seriously, when the car hit a trade union rally in the city centre.

The German chancellor has indicated he might sue after he was accused of a "racist outburst" in a birthday party discussion. The alleged victim says he was hurt, but that he did not believe Olaf ...

Election campaign posters showing German Social Democratic Party, SPD, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, top, and his challenger ...

Inciting hatred against migrants, rearmament, and cuts in social provisions stood at the centre of the recent prime-time ...

Viewers surveyed on Sunday thought that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) narrowly won the TV debate against his rival ...