Germany’s economy had stalled. In 2024, German GDP was 0.2 percent lower than in the previous year, and forecasts for 2025 ...

The centrist Social Democratic and Green Parties both earned record low results, with 16 and 11 percent of the votes ...

Populist far-right parties are moving from the political fringes to the mainstream, bringing their climate skepticism with ...

A sense of urgency is rising as parties on the extreme right and left may be able to block defense spending when Germany’s ...

Twenty-one lawmakers with Balkan roots have been elected to the new Bundestag – most of them with Turkish roots and ...

When his coalition collapsed after a budget dispute in 2024, it sealed his fate.

Yields on benchmark German government bonds rose on Monday as the outcome of German general elections supported expectations ...

The conservative CDU led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's 2025 election. Here's a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats ...

Not Germany’s much-discussed far-right party, the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, who are often described as modern-day ...

If he wants an effective governing majority, Chancellor Friedrich Merz must invite the AfD into the government.

The Left (Die Linke) and the far-right AfD party scored big in Germany's federal election on Sunday. But their success has ...

Germany's conservative chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Wednesday drew a chorus of criticism, including from his ...