Results from the election in Germany indicate that Friedrich Merz's center-right Christian Democrats will be able to form a new government with only one coalition partner.

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the centre-Right Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), has emerged as the winner of Germany’s ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Elon Musk has continued his public association with Germany ’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, sending a ...

The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the second largest party in parliament after Sunday's election, ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU won Germany's elections with 28.6 percent, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) recorded ...

Germany's mainstream conservatives won the country's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation’s ...

The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...

After Germans voted on Sunday, the center-right Christian Democrat leader Friedrich Merz is likely to become Germany's next chancellor.

The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the fringe have gone mainstream.

The Christian Democratic Union party is projected to win the election, but the far-right Alternative for Germany is set for its best result since World War II.