By Thomas Escritt and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -Last weekend, Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

A serious rift broke out Friday within Germany’s coalition government over the appointment of new judges to the ...

Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election , while far-right party AfD surged to become the nation's second-largest.

The co-chair of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel, has again accused Chancellor Friedrich Merz ...

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), speaks to voters during an election campaign tour stop on Feb. 20, 2025, in Berlin, Germany. MASSIMO DI NONNO/Getty ...

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 general election of the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, was not supposed to come until September of this year. But on Nov. 6, ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz will pass an early plank of his domestic agenda into law on Friday, grounded in classical economic arguments.

Q&A. What Germany’s Election Means for America — and the World The country’s next leader will face pressure from both Trump and the far right.

The victory for Germany’s conservative opposition in Sunday’s election was the latest example of the "Trump effect internationally," according to Ned Ryun, the founder and CEO of American ...

Last weekend, Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, minimize parliamentary cat-calling, and signed up to a short manifesto notably omitting a call for repatriation of some immigrants ...