Bavarian Premier Markus Söder on Tuesday welcomed German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to a session of the Bavarian Cabinet held on the Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany. The visit to ...

At gigantic open-air concerts in Berlin, Frankfurt and Gelsenkirchen, Germany, the 75-year-old rock star from New Jersey has interspersed short but poignant political speeches to describe the dangers ...

In addition, states will themselves be allowed to borrow up to 0.35% of GDP above the debt brake - giving them some 16 billion euros in spending room.

The vote means Germany will hold new federal elections in early 2025, most likely on Feb. 23. That’s about seven months earlier than originally planned. Why did Mr. Scholz’s government fall?