As Germany heads to the polls, a look at the politician cultivating the anti-immigrant party’s ‘image of competence’.

Friedrich Merz, a conservative rival of Angela Merkel, is on track to become the next chancellor, though the far-right AfD is ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

Germans go to the polls Sunday. Chancellor Scholz's Social Democrats are likely to lose to the conservative CDU party, as the ...

Germans go to the polls on Sunday in a snap election called after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition. WHAT IS GERMANY'S HYBRID VOTING SYSTEM? Germany's reformed voting system ...

A conservative backlash is brewing in Germany, but the likely winners are working to make the transition pragmatic and ...

For the United States to put its considerable clout behind a German political party whose leaders minimize Nazi crimes is a blunder of historic proportions.

Regardless of the outcome, Sunday's German election marks a rejection of the centrist political establishment and a shift to ...

Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz stepped up his attacks on rival Robert Habeck from the Greens as the campaign ahead of Germany’s federal elections enters the final stretch.