Though voters gave rightist parties a majority, Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democrats are teaming up with the ...

Friedrich Merz and his conservative Christian Democratic Union must now persuade Germans that he can fix the economy and get ...

The ‘firewall’ against the far-right, neo-Nazi party AfD in Germany, which has so far prevented the party’s involvement in ...

The far-right AfD leads in a German poll for the first time ever. Can the incoming chancellor reverse the trend?

BERLIN - Germany's far-right AfD party topped a major poll for the first time on Wednesday in a sign of growing ...

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

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

German conservatives under Friedrich Merz clinched a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, ...

Conservatives and Social Democrats aim to boost defense spending, cut migration; Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, frozen ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has unveiled a new coalition deal between the country’s two major centrist ...

AfD’s position as Germany’s most popular party will further chip away ... The poll came the same day CDU leader Friedrich ...

Germany must accept fewer than 100,000 asylum seekers a year because its public services are “overwhelmed” by immigrants, the ...