Thousands more people turned out on Sunday to protest the growing influence of the far right in Germany, after hundreds of ...

POLITICO has processed 35 years’ worth of election data to find out why this month’s vote is messier than ever ― and what will happen next.

Even if Merz stumbles across the finish line and secures a coalition government, the death knell for Christian democracy may ...

The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far right has hurt his ...

Centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Greens and multiple civil society and church groups denounced the vote as a breach of a taboo in post-war Germany against any cooperation with extremist parties ...

Friedrich Merz , chairman of the conservative Chistian Democratic Union (CDU), believes he is set to become Germany's next chancellor after the general election on February 23. At the final party conf ...

A vote in Germanys national parliament (Bundestag) has led to fears that the firewall supposedly separating mainstream ...