Germans will head to the polls on Sunday to choose their next chancellor. The man favored to clinch the election is Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democrats. He has been considered a potentially ...

Friedrich Merz leads Germany's election, signaling financial reforms, while Alice Weidel’s AfD pushes for radical crypto deregulation.

German voters head to the polls in a winter election on Sunday but may not have a new government until the spring.The confident frontrunner Friedrich Merz has said he's aiming for an Easter deadline ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz said on Thursday the U.S. was at risk of sliding into longer-term authoritarian ...

A network of more than 700 fake social media accounts has sprung up in the last week of Germany's election campaign, ...

PETER SPARDING is Senior Vice President and Director of Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and ...

Friedrich Merz is on the precipice of becoming Germany’s next chancellor. If successful, his conservatism and quest for new ...

Musk won AfD a massive new audience, and JD Vance added support. That brought the party outsized attention, but the impact in ...

Germans will greet the next government with the stoniest of scepticism. Thorsten Faas, a political scientist at the Free ...

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union is favored to replace Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party as ...

A new poll of German voters released on Thursday shows the centre-right opposition bloc still firmly in the lead, but points ...

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.