Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...

Voters are heading to the polls in Germany, with the country’s far-right AfD party expected to make large gains.Polling ...

In Germany that once swore to never again let fascism take over, neo-Nazis of Alternative for Germany (AfD) are projected to ...

This important election has galvanised voters, and campaigning resumed on Saturday evening with a final discussion on ...

Given the global trend of a political shift towards the right, the rise of the AfD isn’t particularly surprising.

As an openly gay politician who lives with her Sri Lanka-born partner in Switzerland, Alice Weidel was an unusual choice to ...

Germans were voting in a national election on Sunday that is expected to restore power to Friedrich Merz's conservatives while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is forecast to achieve ...

Germany is the most populous country in the 27-nation European Union and a leading member of NATO. It has been Ukraine’s biggest second-weapons supplier, after the U.S. It will be central to shaping ...

BERLIN: German politicians made a final scramble for votes Saturday (Feb 22) on the eve of crucial elections in which ...

Polling stations have opened across Germany in early elections to the country’s Bundestag (parliament). Overall, 4,506 candidates, with almost a third of them women, are vying for 630 seats in the ...

In the latest polls, Friedrich Merz’s party – which remains far ahead of the second-place contender – has shown a decline, ...