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

One lesson from an Alternative für Deutschland rally and this weekend’s election results: The Cold War never ended.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Alternative for Germany appears to be headed for the strongest showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday’s ...

A lawyer for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down U.S. health insurance executive Brian Thompson in ...

Polls are open across Germany as the world’s third largest economy chooses a new leader to guide it through an era of febrile ...