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

For decades, Germany maintained a robust ‘firewall’ between the centre-right CDU and the far-right AfD. Political ...

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 ...

German are voting for their next parliament and, ultimately, government on Sunday in the country’s snap federal election. The ...

Germany's elections are taking place on Sunday, and it is the party set to finish second that is attracting much of the ...

AfD has almost doubled its support since 2021 because of voter dissatisfaction with Scholz’s coalition government, says ...

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

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

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

Donald Trump has taken the world by storm with swift actions in the first few days of his second term. Meanwhile, several ...

Germany has, however, maintained a relatively open-door policy for migrants. Former Chancellor Angela Merkel of the CDU/CSU party declared in 2015: “Wir schaffen das!” or “We can do it!” and welcomed ...

Germany holds elections on Sunday after its three-party "traffic light" coalition collapsed last year and could soon have a ...