Friedrich Merz, likely Germany's next chancellor, said he was under "no illusions" about the White House's impact on campaigning as the far-right AfD surged to a historic high.

This video can not be played What Trump and Zelensky have said about each other as rift deepens Edited by James Harness and Jacqueline Howard Germany is days away from a general election and Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken about Ukraine in a speech on the election trail in the town of Ilsede,

Months after American voters returned Donald Trump to the White House, the 2024 U.S. election is casting a giant shadow over the 2025 German election.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned US Vice President JD Vance’s overture to Germany’s far right as a direct intervention in the country’s democracy, marking a new low point in transatlantic relations after Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Germany's rocky path towards Sunday's early elections began when the outgoing coalition government collapsed in acrimony on November 6, the very day Donald Trump won re-election to the White House.

PARIS — The good news from Germany’s elections on Sunday is that voters in the world’s No. 3 economy don’t give a fig what Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk think about their country’s politics.

Germany's likely next chancellor warned Europe can no longer rely on its American allies: "I never thought I would end up one day having to say that."

U.S. president’s praise for Friedrich Merz’s ‘conservatives’ offers a glimmer of hope after the White House’s brutal criticism of Europe.

On Tuesday, the White House social media accounts published a video of people in leg restraints and handcuffs being loaded onto a plane as part of a deportation operation. On the social media accounts,

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

After the highly unusual U.S. interventions, the AfD remains in second place heading into Germany’s federal election on Sunday.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance ... and which has long dreamed of a White House willing to break with the United States’ traditional European allies. Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show ...