Germany's housing shortage, especially in major cities like Munich and Berlin, has been worsening for years. But it's not the ...

Germany’s conservative Christian Democrats ... The Christian Democrats made gains throughout the southern and western districts. The Christian Democrats will need to build a coalition to ...

An analysis of Germany’s election data shows that Sunday’s vote was historic for several reasons. Five key observations show how the country's politics are changing.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis. Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne ...

For the third time in its modern history, Germany faced the prospect of early elections. With the Free Democratic Party (FDP) ...

Berlin — Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation's second-largest.

Polls show the CDU enjoying a comfortable lead, with 28% support. Merz voted Sunday in Arnsberg in western Germany, just minutes after his main rival, Scholz. But it's the rise of the far-right ...

Polls place the conservative CDU/CSU bloc first with 29-30 per cent of the votes, followed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which could secure around 20-21 per cent, becoming - for ...