Polling stations opened at 8am (7am GMT) with more than 59 million Germans eligible to vote and first estimates based on exit ...

Last night’s German election continues the global story of the collapse of the 20th century’s stable two-party system.

Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, putting its leader Friedrich Merz in pole position to be next chancellor. Follow ...

Last month, he brought a nonbinding motion calling for many more migrants to be turned back at Germany's borders to ...

Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, putting its leader Friedrich Merz in pole position to be next chancellor. Follow ...

US President Donald Trump congratulated the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on their victory in Germany's national election ...

Immigration is the defining issue not only of the Feb. 23 election, where AfD has a strong foothold, but the entirety of ...

German voters are choosing a new government in an election Sunday dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of ...

Centre-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz is on track to be Germany's next chancellor, with his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party alongside Christian Social Union (CSU) projected to win the ...

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) declared victory Sunday as exit polls and early results suggest the ...

German voters have demanded a "change in politics," a leading Christian Democrat (CDU) politician has said, after exit polls ...

Conservative leader and front-runner Friedrich Merz has cast his vote in the German election. Merz is the leader of the ...