Zeitenwende’ – that deliberately weighty term coined by former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz following Russia’s invasion of ...

Berlin has unveiled plans to become the strongest army in Europe. But the country is rearming without redefining its role in ...

As one European nationalist party saw its grip on power end abruptly in Hungary over the weekend, another was riding a wave of popularity that is strengthening its hold on German politics.

This year is a big election year in Germany: Five of the 16 federal states are set to elect new parliaments. But the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), once one of the country's most ...

The far-right AfD party is launching a new youth organization. Experts expect it to be as radical as its predecessor.Jean-Pascal Hohm is young and well-groomed: a neatly shaved neck, a side part, tidy ...

A quarter century ago, German political scientist Harald Müller observed that “the very basic question of whether … Germany should rethink its renunciation of nuclear weapons has a very odd ...

For 14 years while Syria’s brutal civil war raged, Germany provided a safe haven for those fleeing the violence. Now, a year after that conflict ended with the fall of the Assad regime in December ...

Europe, as the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk recently wrote, has ended a long “vacation from history.” We have crossed the threshold into a gloomier era that is once again characterized by power ...