Far-Right German party is capitalising on discontent over terror incidents as the country prepares for election ...

The conservative CDU/CSU alliance under Friedrich Merz is ahead in the polls, with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) second and Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) coming third.

With international politics in flux, three leading historians give their views on the most consequential election in a ...

Three trends, each a source of grave concern for Germans, form the backdrop to Sunday’s Bundestag elections: an uncertain, ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces its biggest economic and diplomatic ...

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

Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

Stories of a pre-election state of emergency, police escorts for toddlers and forged ballot papers -- a blizzard of online ...

Berlin Film Festival director Tricia Tuttle has voiced her concerns about the rise of the far-right as Germany gears up for a ...

This may be the year the firewall collapses. The AfD is now polling at about 22 percent nationally and seems destined for a ...

US intervention in Germany’s election was not a good idea, and it will be ill-judged as history comes to mark the changes of this decade ...