POLITICO has processed 35 years’ worth of election data to find out why this month’s vote is messier than ever ― and what will happen next.

A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

Friedrich Merz, the favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, said on Monday he is ready to "lead Germany forward" as ...

Bavarian Premier Markus Söder on Monday said only the centre-right CDU/CSU alliance can stem the growth of the far-right ...

The decision in Germany’s parliament to allow the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to secure a majority with its votes ...

With Germany's federal election just weeks away, and in the wake of two contentious parliamentary votes, tens of thousands of citizens rallied across the country to voice concern over the rise of the ...

Despite opposition from the Social Democrats and the Greens, Merz thought he had enough support to pass the bill. His CDU/CSU bloc, along with the AfD, the liberal Free Democrats and the far-left BSW ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank an ascendant far right spectacularly backfire in the ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

Germany's Social Democrats are doubling down on criticism of conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, after a controversial bill on tighter migration policy tabled by his bloc was narrowly ...

Germany's mainstream parties were locked in talks on Friday in an attempt to avert the possibility of a law passing thanks to ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's parliament could pass a law thanks to far-right support for the first time in the country's post-war history on Friday, if an opposition motion on tightening immigration ...