At the heart of the election is the economy, which has been experiencing a downturn. The ruling coalition, comprising the ...

The leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has been endorsed by Donald Trump - and looks set to make huge gains in ...

A conservative backlash is brewing in Germany, but the likely winners are working to make the transition pragmatic and ...

As Germany prepares to elect a new government on Sunday, immigration has emerged as the defining issue. A decade after former ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a ...

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

Regardless of the outcome, today's German election marks a rejection of the centrist political establishment and a shift to ...

For the first time since the fall of the Third Reich 80 years ago, there is a real possibility that a party with direct ...

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

Stories of a pre-election state of emergency, police escorts for toddlers and forged ballot papers -- a blizzard of online ...