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

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

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

Alternative for Germany appears to be headed for the strongest showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday’s ...

A reform of Germany's constitutionally enshrined debt brake, which limits public borrowing, would be discussed by the leaders ...

Recommendation algorithms operated by social media giants TikTok and X have shown evidence of substantial far-right political ...

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

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 newcomer, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), said on Monday it might legally challenge the results of ...

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

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Germany's mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the country's national election, ensuring that Ukraine has an ...