Although Germany has rarely handed an absolute majority to any candidate, Centre-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz's ...

Germans went to the polls Sunday in a pivotal election, with the conservatives the strong favourites after a campaign rocked by a far-right surge and the dramatic return of US President Donald Trump.

German voters are heading to the polls for a national election. The race pits the incumbent chancellor against the opposition leader, the vice chancellor and a leader of a far-right ...

If the far-right AfD performs well in Germany's national elections, it could have major implications for the EU.

Joseph Goebbels, later the Third Reich’s chief propagandist, wrote a newspaper essay addressing the question of why the ...

Germany heads to the polls in high-stakes elections today to choose the next chancellor, with conservatives favored to win.

Europe's anchor nation is on the line Sunday as German voters pick between AfD, CDU and SDP for the next Bundestag and ...

Immigration is the defining issue not only of the Feb. 23 election, where AfD has a strong foothold, but the entirety of ...

What Germans decide in national elections that are likely to produce a new chancellor will be of critical importance as ...

Overall, 4,506 candidates, with almost a third of them women, are vying for 630 seats in the Bundestag. About 59.2 million Germans eligible to vote will shape the new German parliament. Following the ...

Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...