The decisions made by the new Bundestag will determine whether Europe moves toward stronger unity and security, or risks ...

Germany's conservative CDU/CSU bloc questions the political neutrality of some non-governmental organizations. That could weigh on relations with the center-left Social Democrats, their potential ...

A remarkable political stability has characterised Germany during most of the post-second world era. Merz will be only the 10th chancellor of the past 76 years. But the election result showed that ...

"Today, Germany has gone from paragon to pariah. Its economic model is broken, its self-confidence shattered and its political landscape fractured." "This is not a country for entrepreneurs ...

The adherents of the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) believe tomorrow belongs to them. Meanwhile, The Left party is now the parliament’s radical new insurgent. But what happens to the ...

BERLIN—For Germans browsing social media in recent months, one political party was tough to avoid. The far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, which wants to pull Germany out of the European ...

“We want to be part of the solution, in terms of creating new business opportunities and diversifying trade,” said Tjorven Bellmann, Germany’s ambassador to Canada. She was speaking at a ...

As is its climate stance. What happened in Germany is part of a global trend, analysts say, as populist far-right parties move from the political fringes to the mainstream, bringing their climate ...

With his biography, his many years of political experience, his clear commitment to the social market economy, to transatlantic ties and to Germany's European orientation, he embodies credibility ...

The leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD), the far-right Germany political party, has boldly claimed it will be the largest party in the country by the next election, after it finished second in ...

With this electoral outcome, Germany once again has the luxury of forming a government from the political centre without major obstacles. The risk is that if there is no decisive progress on key ...

Berlin — Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national ... established itself as a significant political force in the 12 years since ...