Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

Berlin — Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation's second-largest.

Germany's conservative CDU/CSU alliance led by Friedrich Merz won Sunday's elections with 28.9 percent of the vote, according to updated exit polls. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD ...

Polls show the CDU enjoying a comfortable lead, with 28% support. Merz voted Sunday in Arnsberg in western Germany, just minutes after his main rival, Scholz. But it's the rise of the far-right ...

Shortly afterwards, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a confidant of the Trump administration, waded into the campaign, voicing his support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin Germany’s next government will almost certainly be a coalition of multiple political parties, to form a majority in Parliament. But one party will almost ...

By Christopher F. Schuetze and Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin Germany is getting a new chancellor. Its current leader is heading out of power, but his party probably will stick around in a ...

Germany’s highest-stakes election in years is paving the way for a pivot to increased spending, with markets predicting the end of an era for constrained fiscal policy. The euro rose as much as ...