One lesson from an Alternative für Deutschland rally and this weekend’s election results: The Cold War never ended.

Merz’s priority will be to form a government with the third-placed Social Democrats (SPD), led by Germany’s current ...

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

In the capital of Berlin, deep within this sea of blue, residents said they were “devastated” by the result. A 28-year-old ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

Alternative for Germany surged to the best showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday's national election and became the strongest political force in parts of the country.

While the far right made historic gains in Germany's elections on Sunday, Conservative politician Friedrich Merz won with ...

Alternative for Germany (AfD), which garnered 20.8% of the vote, is now the country's second strongest political force. The ...

Polling stations opened at 8am (7am GMT) with more than 59 million Germans eligible to vote and first estimates based on exit ...

Exit polls show Friedrich Merz's conservatives leading in Germany's election, with concerns over far-right party strength and ...

Vice President JD Vance’s speech Feb. 14 at the Munich Security Conference was not merely the most important speech the precocious young second-in-command has delivered in his political career. It was ...

A direct high-speed rail route from Munich to Paris is in the works and will become operational at the end of 2026.