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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the United States and most of the European Union have shrugged off the pandemic recession and restarted their economic engines, Germany remains idled. Its economy shrank slightly in 2024 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps the world's most beautiful castle, though, is located in southern Germany. Neuschwanstein Castle is located at the southern end of the Romantic Road just outside the village of Schwangau.

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Jillian Melchior, and Kyle Peterson. Photo: Joel Marklund/Zuma Press/Damian Dovarganes/AP/Omar Ashtawy Apaimages ...