Trump had tapped the biotech entrepreneur and former presidential candidate to run the newly formed Department of Government ...

Notably, the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 19.5 percent votes. Its leader Alice Weidel expressed her ...

Former tánaiste Michael McDowell is being lined up as a Government-backed replacement for Michael D Higgins in the Áras.

Seven out of twelve Kurdish candidates have won seats in Germany’s federal parliament, the Bundestag, revealed the ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Elgin-Middlesex-London, held by the Progressive Conservative since 2011, lost one candidate last week when New Democrat ...

The far-right AfD and the Left jointly secured the one third of seats needed to block constitutional changes. Both oppose ...

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

Exit poll results suggest vast gains for the far-right AfD party and a sizeable shift in the fortunes of Germany’s two ...

Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

With Germany's election results in, Friedrich Merz emerges as a key figure who has promised to reshape Europe-US relations ...

Germany's likely new Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has shared his concerns about the future of NATO and defence in Europe.