Though a relief for the governing coalition, the far-right Alternative for Germany nearly tripled its vote share in North ...

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party finished first in municipal polls in Germany’s most populous state, but the ...

The CDU remains the strongest party after local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Greens have emerged as the clear ...

Germany's centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has emerged as the strongest party in local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, according to initial projections ...

Amira Mohamed Ali, co-chair of the BSW party, speaks to the press in the Paul Löbe House with the documents for the BSW's objection to the Bundestag election in her hand. More than 800 objections to ...

Whenever there's talk of a crisis of democracy in Germany, leading politicians proudly point to the well-established independence of the "judges from Karlsruhe" — that is, the judges who sit on the ...

In August and September 2025, posts online claimed that over the course of two weeks, several members of the far-right German political party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) died in the weeks ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative leader seeking to become Germany’s next chancellor, failed to obtain the necessary votes to win the position in parliament on Tuesday. Out of a total of 630 votes, ...

BERLIN — German election winner Friedrich Merz sealed a deal Wednesday to form a new government that aims to spur economic growth, ramp up defense spending, take a tougher approach to migration and ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's conservative chancellor candidate Armin Laschet here was ridiculed on social media for a misstep on election day on Sunday, capping a campaign marred by embarrassing ...