Center-right leader Angela Merkel is missing an opportunity. She should take a cue from her left-of-center predecessor, Gerhard Schroeder, particularly on labor market reforms.

The people of Germany have spoken, but their answer was muddled. Gerhard Schroeder and Angela Merkel both claim to have won the elections. Germany finds itself in the worst deadlock in its postwar history. How will this deadlock in Europe's biggest economy be overcome? What are the implications for the...

The most important German election in decades has produced a dismal result for Germany, the European Union and the transatlantic alliance.

Gerhard Schroeder and Jacques Chirac are in the pangs of the most humiliating defeat and repudiation in recent European politics. Who says there's no justice in the universe?

Rather than giving Angela Merkel a mandate to change course or Gerhard Schroeder a mandate to stay the course, the German electorate simply froze in the middle of the intersection. And that"s a dangerous place to be, as anyone who has tried to cross a busy Berlin street knows.

The losses suffered by German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's party may relieve pressure for the European Unionto adopt centralized German socialism.

If anyone in the world today is exploiting war for domestic political purposes, it is German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

Helmut Kohl"s troubles deepened yesterday, threatening to make the scandal surrounding the former chancellor the biggest in Germany"s post-war history.