Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

POLITICO has processed 35 years’ worth of election data to find out why this month’s vote is messier than ever ― and what will happen next.

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

As elections approach, leader of the opposition CDU presents voters with a centre-right cocktail that is remixed on a daily ...

The attack on sick pay on the pretext of “work-shyness” is cynical and dishonest. The same corporations and politicians ...

Extremely popular’ head of state and IMF boss was ‘virtually unknown’ before achieving ‘great things’ for Germany, says ...

European leaders “will be sweetly wagging their tails” before U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is Europe's longest-serving head of government – and the most polarizing. In an NZZ ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

Poles evade textile collection rules as EU directive takes effect ...

Helmut Marko said he is still working in F1 because of Max Verstappen and to preserve the spirit of Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz. At 81, Marko is the oldest working member of the F1 ...

Horst Köhler, who has died aged 81, was the first German to head the International Monetary Fund and the first non-politician ...