Germany has a complicated system: voters get two votes, one for the candidate in their own constituency, and another for a party's electoral list. There's also a minimum 5% threshold for a party to ...

US President Donald Trump is sending his vice president, JD Vance, to the Munich Security Conference. It could be an uncomfortable meeting for the Europeans.

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insists he would 'never' cooperate with the far right in the way he says his rival Friedrich ...