Yet early voter analysis shows the asylum/public security issue was key in a mass defection of voters from mainstream parties ...

German voters cast their ballots in Sunday’s election, with opposition leader Friedrich Merz claiming victory and Chancellor ...

President Donald Trump celebrated the success of the German conservative parties in an all-caps post on Truth Social ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, projections show.

"We have doubled our votes," Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidate Alice Weidel says as exit poll results are announced in ...

At the start of November last year, Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner - the leader of one of ...

Centre-right party the Christian Democratic Union of Germany is projected to win the national election, putting Friedrich Merz on track to be the country's next chancellor.

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives were on course for a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday ...

Friedrich Merz poised to become next chancellor after exit polls predict victory for his centre-Right Christian Democratic ...

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

The racist, far-right, pro-Russia AfD— founded in 2013 as an anti-European Union party—is an outlier even among Europe’s nationalist parties. One senior leader has been twice convicted of using banned ...

Germany's conservatives win the vote, while the far right alternative has an unprecedented surge and the Social Democrats ...