Germany's left-wing populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance has narrowly failed to win representation in parliament. Or did it?

While the positions of Bundestag members on North Korea are divided, their assessment of the South Korean insurrection ...

The election results in Germany are clearer than they have been in a long time. CDU/CSU will emerge as the strongest party ...

Omar Alkadamani, a Syrian-born, naturalised German citizen, used to support Germany's centre-left Social Democrats. Unsettled ...

A long election night in Germany has ended with five parties entering the next parliament and the conservative alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social ...

AfD saw the biggest victory of a far right party since WWII as Social Democrats suffered their largest postwar defeat.

The Left won 8.8 percent of the vote, nearly doubling its share from the last election. It performed especially well in the ...

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

Financial markets rose on the likelihood of a two-party coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD, with Germany's benchmark ...

Sean O’Grady takes a look at what the outcome says about the country’s left-right balance, and how it might play out for the main parties ...