Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...
Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...
Germany’s national election on Feb. 23, 2025, the 20th since the Federal Republic’s establishment in 1949, saw a significant ...
Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, crumbling ...
The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...
A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition government will have ...
AfD's rise to become the second-largest party in Germany on Sunday's election is a boost to the country's conservative ...
He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and ...
Germany's election on Sunday delivered a win to the conservative opposition as well as a historic surge in support for the ...
Friedrich Merz, a conservative rival of Angela Merkel, is on track to become the next chancellor, though the far-right AfD is ...
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...