He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and ...

Decades after the unification of Germany, the rise of extremist parties has divided the country once again, leaving the ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

Germany has long been considered to have relatively ambitious climate goals and it’s likely that combatting climate change ...

A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition government will have ...

Friedrich Merz’s mainstream Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU won Germany's elections with 28.6 percent, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) recorded ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...

Germany’s national election on Feb. 23, 2025, the 20th since the Federal Republic’s establishment in 1949, saw a significant ...