“This really is democracy’s last bullet,” said CSU leader Markus Söder. While he was referring to the threat from the far ...

The AfD became the first German nationalist party to become the most popular since the foundation of the modern republic.

Germany’s two major centrist parties have reached a coalition deal, the culmination of weeks of negotiations after the ...

The coalition negotiations between the social democratic SPD and conservative right CDU/CSU are going surprisingly smoothly, ...

Germany’s parliamentary election on February 23 saw a significant shift in the country’s political balance, with the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU)/Christian Social Union (CSU) alliance ...

address the media after reaching an agreement between their parties on a coalition for a new German government at a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim ...

Germany's conservatives under chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Tuesday reached a deal with the centre-left Social ...

Merz’s two-party Union bloc emerged as the strongest force from Germany’s election on Feb. 23. Merz turned to the Social Democrats, Scholz’s center-left party, to put together a coalition ...

Merz’s two-party Union bloc emerged as the strongest force from Germany’s election on Feb. 23. Merz turned to the Social Democrats, Scholz’s center-left party, to put together a coalition ...

(JTA) — A far-right party with a record of extremist rhetoric, including minimizing the Holocaust, will not be part of Germany’s government, despite coming in second during national elections ...

Merz’s two-party Union bloc emerged as the strongest force from Germany’s election on Feb. 23. Merz turned to the Social Democrats, Scholz’s center-left party, to put together a coalition ...