Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz wants to form a government quickly in order to revive a moribund economy, hike ...

The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to ...

Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election​, while far ...

The AfD parliamentary faction, which is jubilant after securing a record 21 per cent in Sunday’s federal elections, also ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

“That feeds into this whole far-right populist narrative that the mainstream parties are abandoning those areas,” Lueders ...

Young Germans flocked to opposite ends of the political spectrum in the federal election, rejecting the centre.

One lesson from an Alternative für Deutschland rally and this weekend’s election results: The Cold War never ended.

The success of the far-right AfD is a ‘final warning’ to democratic parties, the winner of Germany’s election warns ...

After more than three years with Chancellor Olaf Scholz at Germany’s helm, Sunday’s election cemented the country’s lurch to ...

The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the CSU, led with 28.6% of the vote, while the AfD came in second with 20.8%, more than doubling its previous share. CDU leader ...