The German electoral authority confirmed the CDU's win in preliminary results, followed by the far-right AfD. The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) have gained the highest percentage of ...

Top German politicians and chancellor candidates, in a final TV debate, traded blows over topics such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine, defense expenditures, and healthcare. DW has more. https://p ...

German citizens went to the polls this Sunday, taking part in snap federal elections in a vote that will shape the course of the EU's largest member state and its biggest economy for the next four ...

German citizens will vote twice: once for a local member of parliament and second for a party. A party must receive at least 5 percent of the national vote to enter the Bundestag, the elected ...

Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz emerged as the winner in Sunday’s election, but the results gave his bloc just one clear path to power with intense pressure to move quickly to ...

The AfD, despite being under surveillance by German domestic intelligence services for pursuing “goals that run against the human dignity of certain groups and against democracy,” has polled ...

BRUSSELS ― Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won the German election Sunday and is on track to take the reins of the EU’s largest economy. It’s not yet clear exactly what the new German government ...

The image of German leadership has taken a hit at home as well as among other Europeans, with a notable decline from a median of 60% to 54% in the past 12 months alone. Slovenia, Norway ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has posted an historic result, cementing its role as a major force in German politics. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has suffered a ...

Friedrich Merz is likely to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party topped the vote in elections, exit polls project. The stuttering economy and immigration were major ...

Attitudes towards migration have also hardened, a profound shift in German public sentiment since its “Refugees Welcome” culture during Europe’s migrant crisis in 2015, that the AfD has both ...