Far-right gains and a ‘sharper and edgier’ chancellor are among the takeaways from the country’s contest, an expert says.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Elon Musk endorsed AfD, an anti-immigration party that just won the most support of any far-right party since World War II.

Twenty percent of Germans voted for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Sunday’s election, twice as many as ...

The Christian Democratic Union has won a plurality in the Bundestag, preliminary exit polls suggested Sunday, while the ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election while a ...

Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

Friedrich Merz's conservatives have won Germany's election, well ahead of rival parties but short of the 30% vote-share they ...

Exit polls show the center-right Christian Democratic Union party leading, with the AfD party heading towards the strongest ...

The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream.

Germany rose from the ashes of world war because it confronted its past. We're heading toward our depths in the U.S. because ...