Since early February, Austria more than doubled its deposit for reusable bottles from 9 cents to 20 cents, while in Germany, it remains at 8 cents. The price difference is incentivizing consumers ...

Mr. Hermsmeier is a journalist who writes about Germany’s politics and society. Friedrich Merz didn’t waste time. Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s ...

Dozens of police teams across Germany raided homes before dawn in a coordinated crackdown on a recent Tuesday. The state police weren't looking for drugs or guns, they were looking for people ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

One week out from Germany's general election, tens of thousands of people gathered in Berlin to protest the growing support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. A quarter of a ...

BERLIN—President Trump’s embrace of Russia is causing Europeans to rethink their security and giving currency to an idea the U.S. has long sought to avoid: a nuclear-armed Germany. Friedrich ...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz, poised to be his country’s next chancellor, said he thinks the explosive exchange between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump on Friday ...

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) declared victory Sunday as exit polls and early results suggest the party garnered the biggest vote share in the country’s elections ...

The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis. Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne ...

The contenders in Germany’s election made their final appeals to voters Saturday, with opposition leader and front-runner Friedrich Merz vowing to revive the stagnant economy and defend Europe ...

It is the 630-member Bundestag that will elect the next chancellor, Germany’s equivalent of a prime minister. There are 29 parties on the ballot, but it’s likely that between five and eight of ...