The real winners of the German election are the hard-right leader Alice Weidel and her White House friends, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance and Donald Trump. Whatever Friedrich Merz’s plans are, he must expect ...

Germany, the pre-eminent European country for the past century, third in world GDP, the biggest economy in Europe and pivotal to the fortunes of the European Union, voted to elect a new parliament ...

The multibillion-euro package loosens borrowing limits and allows new investments in defense, infrastructure and climate. The ...

The rise in support for the AfD poses grave dangers, but their alienated voters are not yet the organised fascist forces of ...

German Lawmakers are debating whether to loosen the country’s strict borrowing rules to fund military expansion ...