Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz stepped up his attacks on rival Robert Habeck from the Greens as the campaign ahead of Germany’s federal elections enters the final stretch.Most Read from ...

More than 59 million German citizens are eligible to vote, including 2.3 million first-time voters and over 7 million with ...

Three trends, each a source of grave concern for Germans, form the backdrop to Sunday’s Bundestag elections: an uncertain, ...

Sunday's vote is being held more than half a year ahead of schedule after centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way ...

According to YouGov’s final MRP poll before the election, the far-right AfD’s 145 seats will surpass the 115 projected for ...

And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...

The world’s third largest economy goes to the polls Sunday under the shadow of unusually brusque interventions from the Trump ...

A so-called grand coalition of the two big centrist parties, the CDU/CSU and Chancellor Olaf Scholz's centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) is seen as the most likely election outcome. The SPD and ...

Germans are going to the polls on Sunday in national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will likely be a new chancellor and a new governing coalition. Usually a little dry and often ...

This is not merely a contest for control of the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, but a referendum on the future of Europe’s ...

German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, took the radical step of dismissing his Finance Minister, Christian Lindner (leader of the Liberal Democratic Party).