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

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.

Germany is in dire need of a strong and stable government, but voters there may have a long wait until one is formed.

Germany’s far right AfD party looks set to make large gains when the country heads to the polls on Sunday. The centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) look set to once again become the largest ...

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 ...

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German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck on Thursday said his Greens will not join a government that pledges to reverse the ban ...

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union is favored to replace Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party as ...

It is not the first time that Russia has tried to influence an election through disinformation. It happened last year, both ahead of the EU elections and the US election. According to the German ...

BERLIN (AP) — German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a new parliament that will determine how the country is run for ...

The German government is preparing for an upheaval in its parliament as citizens head to the ballot box following the collapse of the nation's ruling coalition.