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 ...

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

Germany’s election results are in – and, from the looks of things, we are set to see a very different leadership style brought to the country. The man expected to be the new German chancellor has been ...

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 ...

Özdemir’s election slogan was “economy, economy, economy”, portraying his state’s fate as a precursor to the wider German ...

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 ...

BERLIN, Germany — Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while Alternative for Germany doubled its support in the strongest ...

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

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 ...