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 ...

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 ...

While the interior remains free from specific festive events, the castle’s picturesque surroundings become a winter wonderland. Visitors can wander to nearby German Christmas markets ...

President Donald Trump celebrated on Sunday after German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz claimed victory in a national election, ousting Social Democrat incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

European castles are iconic and historically significant structures, many dating back to the Middle Ages. They were primarily built for defence against enemy invaders, housing nobles and royalty ...

Friedrich Merz's conservatives (CDU/CSU) won Sunday’s national election in Germany, but in second place, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) earned its best result yet in Europe's ailing ...

By Steven Erlanger and Christopher F. Schuetze Friedrich Merz, the man who is almost certain to be Germany’s next chancellor, is a conservative businessman who has never been a minister and was ...

Germany’s chancellor-elect, Friedrich Merz, leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union party, said his "absolute priority" upon taking up the top job will be to secure Europe so that ...

As US and Russian officials meet about the war in Ukraine - without Ukraine - European leaders are feeling similarly sidelined. Meanwhile, Germany’s controversial far-right party could make ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany is particularly vulnerable to U.S. trade tariffs, which could curb growth for years to come and hold back an economy already suffering through two straight years of ...

Tesla sales careened lower in Germany in January, as sales of the electric-vehicle company headed by Elon Musk tumble across Europe. The German trade group VDA reported that Tesla new-vehicle ...