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

Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

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

Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election​, while a ...

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 ...

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

In spite of the Tesla CEO's best efforts, the AfD performed no better than had been expected when snap elections were called.