The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

President Donald Trump was right to criticize Germany, during his first term for its anemic defense spending, reliance on Russian natural gas, and loose stance on migration.

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

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

It is clear that this [the U.S.] government does not care much about the fate of Europe,” says Friedrich Merz, who is set to ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU won Germany's elections with 28.6 percent, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) recorded ...

The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...

AfD leader Alice Weidel celebrated her party's historic performance in Germany's latest national election, with exit polls ...

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

Friedrich Merz faces complex coalition negotiations after the far-right AfD surged to a historic second place in a fractured ...