The February 23 parliamentary poll in Germany produced several outcomes, the prominent being a highly fractured verdict.

Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the heart of power.

Germany is home to the largest number of asylum seekers among the EU member states. But a growing political shift to the ...

Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has promised to "massively expand border controls" once the country's next ...

The announcement comes after Austria, to the south, rejected Germany's idea of turning back asylum seekers at the border, ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called for European unity in the face of current political challenges, ...

Germany’s “Great Coalitions” are getting smaller. In the (then West German) Federal Republic in the 1980s, the centrist major parties gathered over 85% of the vote between them. In 2025, the former ...

Germany's Green party on Monday threatened to torpedo plans put forward by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz to invest ...

As Germany's Friedrich Merz gets closer to becoming chancellor, many asylum seekers live in fear of what his promised ...

One leader said he would seriously think of packing his proverbial “suitcase in the attic” if the party were to be part of a governing coalition in any German state. (JTA) — Jewish leaders ...

Germany's conservative election winner Friedrich Merz said on Saturday he had agreed on tough restrictions on irregular immigration in talks with his likely future governing partners.