Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz stepped up his attacks on rival Robert Habeck from the Greens as the campaign ahead of Germany’s federal election enters the final stretch.

More than 59 million German citizens are eligible to vote, including 2.3 million first-time voters and over 7 million with ...

Germany faces a snap election on Sunday, 23 February following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz 's coalition government. That has set the stage for a contest between established parties and a ...

Germany’s far-right AfD party looks set to make large gains when the country heads to the polls on Sunday. The centre-right ...

German politicians are finding it hard to keep up with developments these days: Just over a week ago at the Munich Security Conference, a high-level annual gathering of political leaders and defense ...

And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...

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

The German government is preparing for an upheaval in its parliament as citizens head to the ballot box following the collapse of the nation's ruling coalition.

From a fabricated sex scandal to a fake museum heist, disinformation aimed at influencing Germany's high-stakes election is ...

Robert Habeck, Germany’s economic minister and vice chancellor, pushed for Europe to create its own version of the social ...