Germany’s economy contracted in the final quarter of 2024, underlining the scale of the challenge for the next German ...

Germany's mainstream conservatives won the country's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation’s ...

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

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.

Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option ...

Christian Lindner triggered early elections last fall with a move meant to save his party. It brought chaos at an inopportune ...

Friedrich Merz’s party has won the most seats in Germany’s election. But after ridiculing the left and embracing far right ...

That exclusion means it is virtually certain that the AfD will not be part of the next government. Ideologically conservative entrepreneur Merz, 69, is widely expected to become Germany's next ...

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union is favored to replace Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party as ...

A strong German government would be important to Europe’s response to the new U.S. administration and to turmoil in Ukraine and elsewhere. Germany and neighboring France have traditionally been ...