Regardless of the outcome, Sunday's German election marks a rejection of the centrist political establishment and a shift to ...

Merz, 69, promises fundamental policy shifts, including stricter migration controls and market-friendly reforms to revive ...

According to YouGov’s final MRP poll before the election, the far-right AfD’s 145 seats will surpass the 115 projected for ...

When Donald Trump won the US election in November, Germany’s government imploded. Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance ...

Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a ...

Germany's rival political leaders take their fight for votes right to the last minute before a pivotal election.

German voters head to the polls in a winter election on Sunday, but may not have a new government for several months.

The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap election.

Germany holds its snap national election on Sunday following the collapse of Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition, and the ...

And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...

As tens of millions of Germans head to the polls this Sunday (February 23), one topic has been conspicuously absent from the ...