Polls show the CDU enjoying a comfortable lead, with 28% support. Merz voted Sunday in Arnsberg in western Germany, just minutes after his main rival, Scholz. But it's the rise of the far-right ...

Just ask these executives. By Melissa Eddy and Jim Tankersley Melissa Eddy and Jim Tankersley traveled to Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany, and spent a day speaking to company leaders and workers.

That means Germany is likely headed for a coalition government — and the process of building one could take months. The party with the most votes on Sunday will have to find partners.

Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz on Thursday made concessions to the Green Party in the hopes it would lend critically important votes to his multi-billion-euro ...

Free Expression: Alternative for Germany more than doubled its 2021 vote share to 20% in the 2025 election, but the winning Christian Democratic Union, which sees the AfD as a pariah, has said it ...

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 ...

The German elections confirmed that Germany, traditionally the most powerful country in Europe at least potentially, since Bismarck founded the German Empire in 1871, has arrived at a crossroads, ...

Alexandra Beier, AFP Trump's threats of a trade war spell more trouble ahead for Germany, after its economy has shrunk for the past two years, and as it faces bitter social polarisation on the ...

KARLSRUHE, Germany — Shouting so loudly he barely needed a microphone, Martin Hess had an unyielding message for opponents of Alternative for Germany, the party beloved by Elon Musk and ...

Explore Cochem, a picturesque town nestled in the breathtaking Moselle Valley of Germany. Stroll along its charming cobblestone streets, marvel at the majestic Reichsburg Castle, and savor ...

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Writing in his final “MerzMail” dispatch before Germany’s election on Sunday Friedrich Merz, who is all but certain to take over as the tenth chancellor of the federal republic after the ...