Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) declared victory Sunday as exit polls and early results suggest the party garnered the biggest vote share in the country’s elections ...

Understanding the Alternative for Germany’s success in Sunday’s elections. By Amanda Taub The Alternative for Germany party came in second in federal elections on Sunday, doubling its vote ...

But it needs one. I immediately thought of German as the most likely language to produce such a word. The grammar of German means that it is a language in many ways uniquely suited to combining ...

The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis. Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne ...

Friedrich Merz's conservatives (CDU/CSU) won Sunday’s national election in Germany, but in second place, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) earned its best result yet in Europe's ailing ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The hands of Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), as he speaks during a news ...

The fight Vice President JD Vance recently picked with our European allies concerned much more than free speech.

Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, attends an award ceremony. One of the most prominent representatives of the Jewish community in Germany ...

Voting opened Sunday in a German general election that opinion polls suggest will bring a new chancellor and a new governing coalition. The country’s elections are often a little dry and ...

German voters have chosen a new direction in a crucial federal election that will reshape the country's political landscape. Exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz's center-right ...