The AfD is a strange party – and in some ways it is quite different from most of the other European far-right parties that have become more powerful in the past decade. It was formed in 2013 as a ...

The brake - part of Germany's response to the 2009 financial crisis under former chancellor Angela Merkel - limits the ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor wants to reboot ties with France, do a free-trade deal with Donald Trump and get tougher on ...

Speaking in Munich last week, America’s vice-president, J.D. Vance, offered a taste of how the home of fine wines, classical ...

Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...

In April 1928, Joseph Goebbels, later the Third Reich’s chief propagandist, wrote a newspaper essay addressing the question of why the National Socialists, despite being an “anti-parliamentarian party ...

Ronan Hunter’s castle is his home – for a few days a week, writes Phil Hill . The director and general manager is nearing the end of his second stint at Taunton’s Castle Hotel. He is from Ballycastle, ...

There’s a reason Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have chosen to relegate Europe to the children’s table over Ukrainian peace ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative front runner, couldn't be more different from his predecessor, Angela Merkel.

Germany's conservative parties and far-right AfD lead in the polls, with the CDU’s Friedrich Merz likely to become chancellor ...

Vice President J.D. Vance sent shock waves with a speech in Munich that called out Europe, and more specifically Germany, for ...