Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to ...
French President Emmanuel Macron will dine with Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz at the Elysee Palace in Paris ...
Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.
“That feeds into this whole far-right populist narrative that the mainstream parties are abandoning those areas,” Lueders ...
The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...
Friedrich Merz is set to become the next Chancellor at a time of great tumult at home and abroad, writes John Kampfner.
The far-right group has learned to communicate in a country where traditional media no longer shape public opinion.