Friedrich Merz was set to become Germany’s new chancellor after provisional results confirmed his mainstream conservatives had won the national election.The results showed Mr Merz's Christian ...

East German lawmakers became the first parliamentarians to have come to power in free and fair elections.On March 18, 1990, ...

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

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

Bruising times for center-left parties have U.K. Labour looking abroad — and trying to dodge the same pitfalls.

As President Trump’s “shock and awe” policies radiate around the world, they are galvanizing support for moderate leaders and ...

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

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday he had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ...

It is the 630-member Bundestag that will elect the next chancellor, Germany’s equivalent of a prime minister ... instability in recent months. This election is being held seven months earlier ...

BERLIN — Alternative for Germany surged to the best showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday's national election and ... JD Vance and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hosted the Alternative for Germany’s lead election candidate in Budapest, a further sign the firewall erected around the far-right party in Berlin is under ...