Crowds have flocked to the stern, but reassuring, face of Angela Merkel in her official portrait, even as a backlash to her ...

Germany has listed 12 categories of relatives who may qualify for family reunification residence permits and outlined the conditions foreigners must meet.

It’s 9.00 a.m. on a Sunday morning in early Spring, and we are waiting for the kids to come out onto the soccer field. Some of us are holding coffee cups. We have all gotten up early to take our ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany party appears to be having a pretty good year, raising concerns in the nation and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz leaves the plenary chamber of the Bundestag during the debate following his government statement, in Berlin, Wednesday, Nov. 13. 2024. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP) ...

German Chancellor Scholz declared in 2022 that Germany was undertaking a societal and political sea change—Zeitenwende—on national security. Zeitenwende represents a cross-party consensus in Germany ...

Germany's prospective fiscal U-turn could prove transformational for the country's struggling economy and European defense. Leaders of the likely incoming coalition government on Tuesday announced ...

Current conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza (now spreading across the Middle East), have placed Germany in a difficult position, forcing it to reconsider its role in the world. A uniquely German sense of ...

Shortly before last weekend’s German elections, Elon Musk predicted on his X platform that “it is only a matter of time before AfD wins.” The extreme right-wing Alternative für Deutschland ...