The vote comes at a pivotal time for Europe, which faces an increasingly assertive Trump administration.

Polls are open across Germany as the world’s third largest economy chooses a new leader to guide it through an era of febrile ...

In spite of the Tesla CEO's best efforts, the AfD performed no better than had been expected when snap elections were called.

Germany's conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany came in second, its ...

Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...

For the first time since the Second World War, a far-right party has come second in a German national election, a result that ...

The Christian Democratic Union has won a plurality in the Bundestag, preliminary exit polls suggested Sunday, while the ...

Concern is growing over the far-right Alternative for Germany party’s rise ahead of the German election. Its U.S. supporters ...

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

Alice Weidel, has vowed to "chase" the country's other parties if her party goes into opposition. The CDU/CSU centre-right ...

Young German voters turned mostly to parties on the far left and the far right in Sunday's election, according to an initial ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, leader of the SPD, said the election results were "bitter" for his party and a "defeat".