Deep divisions within Europe are increasingly threatening the values upon which the European project of “ever closer union” is based.

There is room for a special deal on the North in any Brexit deal. 

The chancellor’s failure to form a coalition may lead to fresh elections, and a power vacuum in Berlin would have a knock-on effect in Paris, writes Philippe Legrain

A key potential ally in Germany's next government is insisting Chancellor Angela Merkel's party should not keep the finance ministry because that gives her too much power.

Europeans must find solutions to shared problems, with Germany and France leading the way as they did in the past, says Guy Verhofstadt.

Despite a worldwide economic crisis, the left showed few gains in the last decade as the centre right reacted quicker to the shift in the electoral base, writes Leonid Bershidsky.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has won a fourth term, but now faces the tricky prospect of forming a coalition with two disparate new partners after voters weakened her conservatives and a nationalist, anti-migrant party surged into parliament.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc has won a lacklustre victory in Germany’s national election while the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany party managed a triumphant entry into parliament, projections have shown.

A nationalist party that wants Germany to close its borders to migrants, leave Europe's common currency and end sanctions against Russia is predicted to enter parliament for the first time this month.

Germany has the confidence and capacity to lead Europe, but, ahead of Angela Merkel’s expected re-election, that doesn’t mean its partners have to like it, writes John Lloyd.    

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday stood by her decision to open Germany's borders to hundreds of thousands of refugees two years ago.

As Germany tries to come to terms with the latest terror attack to hit Europe, Angela Merkel must ready for the populist hard-right declarations, writes Josh Lowe

Chancellor Angela Merkel has won a new two-year term as leader of Germany’s main conservative party after stressing her determination to prevent a repeat of last year’s huge migrant influx.

At a moment when one political office after another falls to, or seems under threat from, a resurgent and harder right, the announcement that the German chancellor Angela Merkel is to seek a fourth term must be welcome. 

A nationalist, anti-migration party has powered into three German state legislatures in elections held amid divisions over chancellor Angela Merkel's liberal approach to the refugee crisis.

During the past year, right-wing populist politicians have been on the march, in France, the US and even in Germany, where chancellor Angela Merkel’s generous response to the migration crisis has left her exposed, politically, as never before.

Many of Germany’s top figures have a history with the car industry, including the chancellor, Angela Merkel, and regulations have been lax as a result, writes Noah Barkin.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said turmoil in global markets caused by a Portuguese bank, underscores the euro region’s fragility and shows the need for governments to respect debt and deficit limits.

German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble pushed back against Deutsche Bank co-CEO Juergen Fitschen after he said the minister’s call to keep up vigilance of banks was “irresponsible”.

IN THE coming days, Bettina Wulff will testify in the trial of her estranged husband, Christian Wulff, the former president of Germany who stands accused of taking bribes.

Germany’s Social Democrats want to strip euro policymaking out of the finance ministry in chancellor Angela Merkel’s third term, according to three people familiar with the party’s negotiating strategy.

Germany blocked the introduction of tougher EU emissions rules for cars shortly after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party received a large donation from three major BMW shareholders.

Your otherwise excellent coverage of the German elections was undermined by the description of Angela Merkel, and her Christian Democratic Union (CDU), as “conservatives”.

Official results confirm that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives have won Germany’s election but indicate they have finished short of an absolute majority.

Angela Merkel was on track to win a third term as chancellor in a German election after her conservatives scored their best result in decades, but it was unclear whether she could avoid being forced into a coalition with her leftist rivals.

Angela Merkel’s conservatives triumphed in Germany’s election and could even win the first single-party majority in more than 50 years.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is strongly favoured to win a third term at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy as Germans vote in a national election..

Angela Merkel is in a fight to clinch a new term for her ruling coalition despite enjoying overwhelming popularity and leading an economy that is the envy of Europe.

Chancellor Angela Merkel looked on track to win a third term in this weekend’s election in Germany but faced a battle to preserve her centre-right majority and avert a potentially divisive coalition with her arch rivals, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD).

MANY Irish people, it seems, regard Angela Merkel — the German chancellor as near as certain as to returned to power after the German federal elections on Sunday — to be the modern day version of Margaret Thatcher. And, by extension, like her as much, regarding each as hostile to the interests of the Irish.

GERMAN chancellor Angela Merkel, an unflappable pastor’s daughter, is closing in on a third term in Sunday’s general election, cementing her title as the world’s most powerful woman.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has absolved herself of blame for the eurozone’s north-south split during the debt crisis, saying she has Europe’s best interests at heart when pressing the need to become globally competitive.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s challenger in the German election accused her in a television debate yesterday of crushing southern European countries with austerity, declaring her euro crisis strategy a failure.

A gunman who took three people hostage at a German city hall, forcing chancellor Angela Merkel to cancel a planned election rally there has been captured and his captives rescued unharmed.

A gunman has taken three people hostage at a German city hall, forcing Chancellor Angela Merkel to cancel a planned election rally there.

A fresh referendum giving the Oireachtas more powers of inquiry is being considered by the Taoiseach, after his plans to have TDs and senators investigate the banking collapse in a committee failed to fully satisfy senior ministers.

Germany’s education minister resigned today after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarised parts of her thesis – an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government as it prepares for elections later this year.

German politicians recognise that a collapse in Cyprus’s banking industry would pose a threat to eurozone stability, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel said, suggesting that Germany won’t block a bailout package.

Germany’s centre-left opposition won a wafer-thin victory over chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition in a major state election, dealing her a setback as she seeks a third term in office.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said there will be no deal done on Ireland’s bank debt before the budget next month.

The chief of the Bundesbank is an austerity advocate, but his calls for further action, as well as the move to closer fiscal union, have seen him compared to the German leader who preceded Hitler, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy said the “credibility of the euro won” in Saturday’s request by his government for as much as €100 billion in European Union aid to restructure the nation’s banks.

Germany’s Angela Merkel has insisted that a bad local election defeat for her party will not weaken her as she grapples with Europe’s deepening debt crisis.