Crisis facing Germany too urgent to allow months of talks, election winner Merz says, handing more negotiation leverage to the political left.
France went straight from agreeing peacekeepers with President Trump to floating an Anglo-French deployment of nuclear weapons to Germany.
Hours after his party’s victory in Germany’s federal elections, likely incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz began to soften his stance on immigration as he looks to form a coalition with leftist parties rather than the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany.
Following his party’s victory in federal elections on Sunday, the likely next Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, rejected overtures from President Donald Trump while calling for “independence” from the United States and accusing Washington of election interference.
Sovereigntist AfD soar to new heights, but milquetoast conservatives may still prefer to enter into an Merkel-style coalition with the left.
The exit polls for the federal elections in Germany predict that the neo-liberal Christian Democrats have come out on top, with the support of around one in three voters, with the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) coming in a strong second place at nearly 20 per cent, beating out all members of the former ‘traffic light’ coalition government of likely outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The leftist ‘traffic light’ coalition government in Berlin collapsed just hours after Donald Trump’s victory in November, sparking snap elections in Germany that will likely define the shape of European politics in the years to come.
An asylum seeker from Syria is reportedly suspected of stabbing a Spanish tourist near the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Germany, on Friday evening
Israeli diplomats in Germany once again the target of extremists, with a Islamist motive investigated after arrest made at a Berlin airport.
It will be impossible to justify U.S. military spending to voters if it is used to protect Euros that increasingly act like the bad guys.
The outcome of the German Federal elections this week will likely determine whether conscription will return to the country as the government finds itself thousands of soldiers short of what it thinks it needs.
Move over China, America is coming through. That was the message Wednesday when new figures showed Germany’s biggest single trading partner is now the U.S. for the first time since 2015, displacing China from the top spot as exports to the Asian power declined.
Nearly half of German voters support Berlin deploying troops as part of a broader peacekeeping force in Ukraine after a potential Trump-negotiated settlement between Kyiv and Moscow.
Elon Musk’s X social media firm announced it has launched legal cases in Germany against government “overreach” against the platform’s users’ privacy and freedom of expression.
Monday’s meeting in Paris appears to have validated the Trump administration’s reluctance to include European leaders in Ukraine peace talks as deep divides remain on Europe’s role in the peace process.
American broadcaster CBS followed German police as they raided homes for speech crimes, such as posting a “racist cartoon” on the internet after U.S. Vice President JD Vance criticised censorship across Europe.
Diplomat once known for laughing at Trump’s warning on Germany’s dependence on Russian energy was unable to finish speech rejecting JD Vance.
A 2-year-old girl and her mother have died two days after being injured as a man rammed a car into a labor union demonstration in Munich, police said Saturday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for the formation of an “Armed Forces of Europe” in a speech delivered before the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday.
Newly-sworn Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard took to the stage at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday to highlight President Donald Trump’s promise to be a “peacemaker and unifier.”
Europe is obsessed with external threats but is so morally lost it isn’t even clear what it’s defending itself for any more, JD Vance warned.
America finds Europe’s retreat from shared values as the continent turns away from democracy and towards censorship “shocking”, Vance said.
Trump looking forward to fundamentally productive negotiation with Russia, JD Vance said, in comments mischaracterised as a threat of war.
Some injured seriously and others possibly fatally when a driver ploughed car into a trade union rally in Munich on Thursday morning.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that the populist Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party is the “future” of Germany in a meeting with chancellor candidate Alice Weidel in Budapest on Wednesday.
A collision between a high-speed train and a truck on the outskirts of the German city of Hamburg left one person dead and 25 injured, six of them seriously, police said.
A ‘February surprise’ has been dropped on the chancellor candidate for the far-left German Green party, Robert Habeck, with a prominent media researcher accusing the finance minister of plagiarism in his dissertation with just two weeks left before voters head to the polls.
The leader of the centrist Christian Democratic Union doubled down on his vow to not form a coalition with the populist Alternative for Germany as he squared off with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a debate held two weeks before Germans head to the polls for a federal election.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Germany over the past week to demonstrate against the so-called “far-right”, however, a top publication has reported that activist groups involved have been funded by the left-wing government in Berlin.
Hundreds of sabotaged cars in Germany may have actually been attacked by Russian agents in a plot to discredit Green politics, reports claim.
The Munich summit is a regular forum for global international security discussions which has taken on new significance amid the Ukraine war.
Germany’s failed green agenda is in the sights of leading leftist populist Sahra Wagenknecht as her upstart party laid out its campaign promises this week ahead of the federal election in little over two weeks.
Migrant Crisis architect Angela Merkel again lashed out at her successor in German politics for moving away from the open borders paradigm.
Members of Germany’s top two populist parties, the AfD and BSW, have both been banned from this year’s Munich Security Service, which ironically justified the decision by claiming that populists did not believe in “peace through dialogue”.
President Donald Trump said on Monday that he wants Ukraine to trade “rare earths and other things” for continued American military and financial support.
The U.S. trade relationship with the UK “can be worked out” but the “atrocity” of Europe has made tariffs inevitable, he said.
Germany’s former president Horst Koehler, who served as head of state from 2004 to 2010, died on Saturday aged 81 after a brief illness, officials announced.
There are reportedly concerns that putting too many troops in Ukraine would leave Europe’s northeast border with Russia perilously unguarded.
Europe´s economy stagnated at the end of last year as its former growth engine, Germany, finished a second straight year of shrinking output.
Former Chancellor Merkel, who led Germany and the continent into the Europe Migrant Crisis of 2015 has made a rare break from retirement.
