Within hours of emerging as the near-certain next chancellor of Germany after Sunday’s election, Friedrich Merz offered a grim prognosis of the transatlantic relationship. Europe needs to “achieve ...

BERLIN — Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats started exploratory talks Friday on a possible coalition government, but were ...

The preliminary results of Germany’s national election on Sunday are in, with conservative parties winning the most votes and the far-right nearly doubling its seats in the national legislature.

Friedrich Merz and the CDU's victory in the German election present a shift in Germany's foreign policy, with an emphasis on strengthening European defense capabilities and a potential move towards ...

Amira Mohamed Ali, co-chair of the BSW party, speaks to the press in the Paul Löbe House with the documents for the BSW's objection to the Bundestag election in her hand. More than 800 objections to ...

Free Expression: Alternative for Germany more than doubled its 2021 vote share to 20% in the 2025 election, but the winning Christian Democratic Union, which sees the AfD as a pariah, has said it ...

A graphic showing European Union (EU) election results in Germany from June 2024 was shared online with false captions saying it showed the outcome of the federal election held in February 2025.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks at the award ceremony for the 60th national "Jugend forscht" competition. Markus Scholz/dpa German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday ...

Cottbus, Germany, a modest-sized east German city near the Polish border, with its historic town square whose buildings date back as far as the 15th century, might seem a strange place to visit for ...

Faced with economic stagnation, the rise of the far right, the potential for an end to the war in Ukraine, and possibly the end of 80 years of U.S. security commitments, the voters clearly saw it as a ...