Far-right gains and a ‘sharper and edgier’ chancellor are among the takeaways from the country’s contest, an expert says.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Elon Musk endorsed AfD, an anti-immigration party that just won the most support of any far-right party since World War II.

Twenty percent of Germans voted for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Sunday’s election, twice as many as ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the ...

Exit polls show the center-right Christian Democratic Union party leading, with the AfD party heading towards the strongest ...

A new band of influencers unafraid of confrontation has helped elevate the Alternative for Germany party to second in ...

The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream.

Germany rose from the ashes of world war because it confronted its past. We're heading toward our depths in the U.S. because ...

Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...