Vice President Vance met Friday with a leader of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, making him the ...

A 24-year-old Afghan man plowed a white Mini Cooper into a crowd in Munich on Thursday, injuring at least 28 people in the ...

Germany has a complicated system: voters get two votes, one for the candidate in their own constituency, and another for a party's electoral list. There's also a minimum 5% threshold for a party to ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused his main challenger in the upcoming election of “constant about turns," while Friedrich ...

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...

German voters decide on 23 February who will run their next government, with Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian ...

The vote weakens opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who had faced criticism for aligning with the AfD. Listen to Story Conservatives failed to unite on the bill Opposition leader Friedrich Merz's ...

Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz also wants to cut taxes and deregulate the economy. And if the predictions hold true, he will soon be Germany’s new chancellor. Then again, and ...

The CDU relied on AfD to pass a motion for the controversial bill, breaking a decades-long tradition of excluding the far-right ...

Hold on: It’s been a roller coaster week in German politics, thanks to the taboo-breaking tactics of conservative leader and frontrunner to be the next chancellor, Friedrich Merz. Historic vote: On ...

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) listens to Friedrich Merz (R), Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and parliamentary group leader of the CDU/Christian Social Union in ...