Suddenly, Germany was flush with money.  Seven months in, however, Merz’s government has still been unable to chart a course for economic reform and persuade voters that better days lie ahead. Merz’s ...

The visit of Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul from December 8 to 9 to China is more than a diplomatic ritual, it’s a critical test for the credibility of German foreign policy. At a time when the ...

After an earlier trip was postponed, his arrival in Beijing was a positive sign – but ties are not completely mended yet.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul speaks on foreign policy topics at the "Long Night of "Time" 2025" event on the campus of Hamburg University Markus Scholz/dpa German Foreign Minister Johann ...

Friedrich Merz, German opposition leader and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, speaks during a session of the German parliament 'Bundestag' in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Jan. 31, ...

When was the last time a German chancellor attended the annual meeting of all 230 German ambassadors from around the world in Berlin? Martin Giese, spokesperson for Federal Foreign Minister Johann ...

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul appealed on Monday for an end to the uncertainty that has hit vital deliveries of Chinese semiconductors and rare earths to European manufacturers.

"The world will not wait for us. We must now rapidly regain our ability to act," emphasized the CDU leader Friedrich Merz, on ...

Meanwhile, politicians who argued that forging energy ties with Russia helped not only German industry but also the cause of peace have been sidelined, as the country has pivoted to other sources of ...

IN 1934 the Assembly of the League voted to form a committee "to arrange for an enquiry concerning the causes, scope, methods, and results of compensation and clearing agreements." This committee was ...

Friedrich Merz wants to be a foreign-policy chancellor. One might not have known it from Germany’s parochial federal election campaign, or the business-as-usual foreign-policy passages of the ...

When German Green foreign minister Annalena Baerbock presented her “Guidelines for a Feminist Foreign Policy” in March 2023, we wrote that this project, as absurd as it is reactionary, was “ultimately ...