While polling suggests Germany's far-right AfD party will fare well, it's very unlikely to be part of the next government of ...

How Friedrich Merz responds to the challenge could push the country onto a more prosperous and secure path, or perpetuate its ...

Exit polls suggest that Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the conservative Christian Democrats who has vowed to bring ...

Alice Weidel, the first ever candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party for the post of Chancellar, lives ...

Who Are They? BERLIN (AP) — Four candidates are bidding to be Germany's next leader in Sunday's election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, the opposition leader, the current vice ...

Founded in 2013, the AfD is controversial for its hardline on migration and asylum-seekers, with frequent rows surrounding ...

But until now, all parties at the national level had ... Image Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union, in Berlin on Monday.Credit...Odd Andersen/Agence France-Presse ...

In a hastily arranged statement to reporters, Scholz said he spoke earlier Wednesday with several European leaders ... up from the current 2%. Germany, a target of Trump's ire for failing to ...

and it is not good for the democratic development in all [of] the European Union.” Scholz’s comments come after Musk streamed a conversation with Alice Wiedel, leader of Germany’s far-right ...

Germany’s conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won Sunday’s federal election, comfortably finishing ahead of the far-right AfD party and Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats.