Germans are divided on Chancellor Friedrich Merz's first months in office, with many unconvinced by his promises. Even ...

The political crisis in Japan is being compounded by Trump’s tariffs and demands that the government commit to a US-led war ...

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is in Washington for talks with President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and ...

Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, minimise parliamentary cat-calling, and signed up to a short manifesto ...

More recently, both US Vice President, JD Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have criticized Germany’s decision to classify the AfD as extremist. On Monday, the center-left Social Democratic ...

The Social Democrats say the first legal steps should be taken to ban the far-right Alternative for Germany party as unconstitutional. Conservative lawmakers are less keen on the idea of banning ...

Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) on Sunday passed a motion calling for preparations to ban the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), as the party faithful convened in Berlin for the ...

Germany’s self-proclaimed democracy defenders are at it again: blocking a law-abiding party from exercising its rights—all in the name of protecting democracy. The Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), a ...

The classification followed an internal report that concluded the party fosters anti-immigrant sentiment, racism, and Islamophobia and actively undermines Germany’s democratic order.

Germany’s February election produced an unprecedented result. The center-right Christian Democratic Union, led by Friedrich Merz, won the most votes and the largest number of seats in the ...

The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), stuck to strict balanced budget rules even though a deficit-financed economic stimulus ...