With church congregations dwindling in Germany, clergy are finding creative ways to attract young people. Faced with dwindling church congregations in Germany, spiritual leaders are getting ...

The class of lawmakers taking office is noticeably more male and less diverse than the constituents it will represent. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting from Berlin Two days after a coalition ...

Germany's new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with a reduced headcount, fewer women and a record number of lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). HELMUT KOHL'S ...

Germany will unlock hundreds of billions of euros for defense and infrastructure investments in a dramatic shift that upends its ironclad controls on government borrowing. Chancellor-in-waiting ...

Mr. Hermsmeier is a journalist who writes about Germany’s politics and society. Friedrich Merz didn’t waste time. Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s ...

Germany’s future chancellor Friedrich Merz on Saturday said his conservative CDU party has come to an agreement in principle with the Social Democrats (SPD) to form a coalition government.

Germany’s previous coalition government could not agree on necessary measures to achieve the binding national 2030 climate targets and a number of political issues were left unresolved.

“Do you think you can trust Putin?” German Brig. Gen. Ralf Hammerstein asks with a wry smile. It’s a rhetorical question to which most of Europe would give the same answer – no. As the ...

(Bloomberg) -- Germany’s historic plan to ramp up spending shook European markets on Wednesday, powering equities past their US peers, reviving the euro from the brink of parity with the dollar ...

Germany's Greens on Monday threatened to block a plan to ease the debt brake and funnel hundreds of billions of euros to defense and infrastructure spending.

German defence spending has been given a huge boost. A historic plan that will release billions of euros of extra investment for defence and infrastructure was rubber-stamped today. The package ...

BERLIN—President Trump’s embrace of Russia is causing Europeans to rethink their security and giving currency to an idea the U.S. has long sought to avoid: a nuclear-armed Germany. Friedrich ...