The conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group of Christian Democratic (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz intends to propose experienced politician Julia Klöckner to be the next Bundestag president later ...

Angela Merkel says calling people a ‘Putinversteher’ shuts down important discussions about Russia’s interests Read Full ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is set to break years of fiscal stringency to counter the erosion of the transatlantic ...

The incoming German government, rattled by the prospect of U.S. President Donald Trump withdrawing security guarantees, is ...

Germany’s Bundestag, or Lower House of Parliament, passed a historic bill allowing it to sidestep its strict rules on debt to ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned the use of the term Putinversteher (Putin understander) as a way to ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...

Friedrich Merz, almost assured to be Germany’s next chancellor, is ignoring conventional wisdom when it comes to relations ...

On March 13, 2025, a public hearing was held in the budget committee of the German Bundestag on the planned amendment to the ...

Angela Merkel said there is nothing wrong with attempting to understand Vladimir Putin. In an interview with the Berliner Zeitung, the former German chancellor criticized the invasion of Ukraine and ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched ... a stake through the heart of Ostpolitik. Within days, Merkel’s successor, Olaf Scholz, announced an “epochal change” (Zeitenwende) in Germany’s ...

Angela Merkel noted that there is nothing wrong with trying to understand Vladimir Putin. In an interview with Berliner ...