At the heart of the election is the economy, which has been experiencing a downturn. The ruling coalition, comprising the ...

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

Merz, 69, promises fundamental policy shifts, including stricter migration controls and market-friendly reforms to revive ...

Higher politicisation coupled with feelings of being ignored is pushing more young people out of the center.  Read more at ...

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

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

Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a ...

But hey, if nothing else, the new incoming chancellor can at least enjoy (for now) the performance of German equities, which have been on a bender so far this year. The German word “Zeitwende” ...

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

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

For the first time since the fall of the Third Reich 80 years ago, there is a real possibility that a party with direct ...

Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor ...