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 is set to become Germany’s next chancellor after his centre-Right Christian Democratic Union [CDU] party won ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz declared victory after his Christian Democrats won nearly 29% of the votes in the ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany vaulted into second place on Sunday after about a fifth of voters cast their ballot for ...

The Kremlin said on Monday it would have to wait and see how ties between Russia and any new German government evolved after ...

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

German conservatives under likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed on Monday to move quickly to try to form a coalition ...

The far-right AfD and the Left jointly secured the one third of seats needed to block constitutional changes. Both oppose ...

The single currency gained 0.3 per cent in early trading in Europe to $1.0489. The currency briefly hit a high for the year ...

Germany's conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany came in second, its ...

The vote comes at a pivotal time for Europe, which faces an increasingly assertive Trump administration.