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.

Germany's mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany’s national election, ensuring that Ukraine has an even ...

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

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

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 ...

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

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

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

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