With 28.6% of the vote, the CDU/CSU came out on top, ahead of the AfD, with 20.8% of the vote. CDU leader Friedrich Merz, who ...

After a day of polling, Germany has decided its fate and it’s gone the conservative way. The CDU/CSU bloc has swept to ...

German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck plans to step back from any leadership role in the Greens after his party suffered ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

When a young German anti-climate activist nicknamed the “anti-Greta Thunberg” began flattering tech billionaire Elon Musk on ...

Alternative for Germany surged to the best showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday's national election and ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Both the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland and the far-left Die Linke saw significant gains and were the most popular ...

The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the fringe have gone mainstream.

Based on more than a dozen interviews in the final weeks of the German election campaign, POLITICO tells the story of how ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz on Monday faced the task of quickly building a new government that is eagerly awaited ...