Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...

German citizens aged 18 and up can vote. At least 59.2 million people in the nation of 84 million are eligible, about 2.3 ...

German voters are choosing their new government in an election dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of Europe ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

Friedrich Merz, a conservative rival of Angela Merkel, is on track to become the next chancellor, though the far-right AfD is ...

Donald Trump is smashing up assumptions about America’s place in Europe’s security architecture that perhaps held faster in ...

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Terrorist attacks and job cuts have left Germans feeling bitter, and Alice Weidel is set to benefit in an election some say ...

On a wet evening in Suhl, in the former East Germany, a smattering of youthful faces were among hundreds lining up to hear ...

Germany's mainstream parties lost support while the far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) gained ground in a poll published ...

What Germans decide in national elections that are likely to produce a new chancellor will be of critical importance as ...