The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap election.

Germany’s far right AfD party looks set to make large gains when the country heads to the polls on Sunday. The centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) look set to once again become the largest ...

And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...

As tens of millions of Germans head to the polls this Sunday (February 23), one topic has been conspicuously absent from the ...

In this interview by Chris Becker, Yanis and Melanie discuss the German federal election and Europe's troubling descent into ...

The latest poll released on Friday - just days before German snap elections - saw both the conservative bloc and the Social Democrats incur a slight drop, with a two-way coalition following Sunday's ...

It’s hard not to see the political parallels between Cottbus, a city of 100,000 about 75 miles south of Berlin, and Rust Belt ...

Christian Lindner triggered early elections last fall with a move meant to save his party. It brought chaos at an inopportune ...

A German anti-fascist activist accused of allegedly participating in violent attacks against neo-Nazis went on trial on ...

In April 1928, Joseph Goebbels, later the Third Reich’s chief propagandist, wrote a newspaper essay addressing the question ...

"We believe that the EU is already dedicating too many resources to this war; we cannot continue in this manner because the German economy is declining, and eventually, everything will be destroyed," ...

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.