The first of five state elections this year is being seen as a barometer of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's popularity A survey ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz ⁠faces ⁠his first electoral test since taking ⁠office last May on Sunday, when voters go to ...

In this cradle of Germany’s automotive sector, anxiety is growing over the industry’s fading heyday — and the far right stands ready to capitalize. Germans in Baden-Württemberg — a southwestern state ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in fewer than four years. The latest result cements a shift to the right in Europe.

Chancellor Merz's CDU is neck-and-neck with the Greens ahead of elections in Baden-Württemberg on Sunday. Plus, one in four ...

Baden-Württemberg will go to the polls this Sunday, in the first of five German state elections this year. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is hoping for a win to boost his push for reforms in the entire ...

Özdemir’s election slogan was “economy, economy, economy”, portraying his state’s fate as a precursor to the wider German picture. CDU frontman Hagel meanwhile has promised drastic reforms to stop the ...

Germany's centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has emerged as the strongest party in local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, according to initial projections ...

Alice Weidel may get the last laugh yet. The co-leader of Germany’s most popular party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), was visibly amused on Tuesday morning when Friedrich Merz, the head of the ...

Ms. Sauerbrey is a German journalist who writes about Germany’s politics, society and culture. She wrote from Berlin.

(Corrects paragraph 8 to say Tesla accused a trade unionist of secretly recording, not filming, the meeting) By Rachel More ...