The 69-year-old faces lengthy coalition negotiations after the far-right AfD surged to a historic second place in a fractured ...

Germany's conservatives won the national election on Sunday but a fractured vote handed the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

Sunday’s federal elections in Germany were held at a time when Germany’s support for human rights both at home and on the ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s next chancellor, but he has a long road ahead of him to form government and hold onto power.

However, owing to a constitutional amendment brought in by a previous coalition government, public spending in Germany is ...

Germany’s election continues a slump for left-leaning parties in affluent countries, often connected to immigration and the ...

An alliance between Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the center-left SPD is the only viable path to form a new government ...

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

Financial markets rose on the likelihood of a two-party coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD, with Germany's benchmark ...

Germans have given establishment parties one last chance. Right-wing populists wait on the sidelines. PARIS — The good news ...

Notably, the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 19.5 percent votes. Its leader Alice Weidel expressed her ...

The Christian Democrats are forming a new coalition, with plans that include a possible restart of nuclear power.