Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) said on Wednesday they had agreed to start talks on a possible coalition with Friedrich Merz ...

The far-right group has learned to communicate in a country where traditional media no longer shape public opinion.

A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition government will have ...

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

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

Mohammad Azmouz, a Syrian barber living in Berlin, said casting his first ever vote on Sunday at the age of 57 was an ...

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

Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to ...

He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and ...

How long all of that would take remains to be seen; in the past, it has varied greatly from government to government. In 2017 ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's mainstream conservatives, has said that Europe must become independent from the ...