The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative rival of Angela Merkel, is on track to become the next chancellor, though the far-right AfD is ...

Germany’s far-right AfD party looks set to make large gains when the country heads to the polls on Sunday. The centre-right ...

Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

Germany holds a national election on Sunday following an acrimonious campaign in which the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

BERLIN (AP) — The contenders in Germany's election made their final appeals to voters Saturday, with opposition leader and front-runner Friedrich Merz vowing to revive the stagnant economy and defend ...

Sunday's vote is a pivotal moment for the Alternative for Germany party. It's polling high enough for second place as part of a far-right surge sweeping Europe.

Yet the trend of young voters choosing the AfD for their politics is a phenomenon that is a rising across Germany. Polls for the upcoming election on Sunday, and the AfD’s success in regional ...