The far-right AfD likely will score its best ever result as Europe's ailing economic powerhouse lurches rightwards. The ...

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union is expected to be Germany's next chancellor.

The contenders in Germany’s election are making their final appeals to voters. The opposition leader and front-runner vowed ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on the minds of German voters. The far-right AfD is polling in second place.

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

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

Concern is growing over the far-right Alternative for Germany party’s rise ahead of the German election. Its U.S. supporters ...

Germans go to the polls Sunday. Chancellor Scholz's Social Democrats are likely to lose to the conservative CDU party, as the ...

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

Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz stepped up his attacks on rival Robert Habeck from the Greens as the campaign ahead of Germany’s federal elections enters the final stretch.

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