German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks at the award ceremony for the 60th national "Jugend forscht" competition. Markus Scholz/dpa German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz is planning to seek election as chancellor in a second round of voting, his parliamentary group said on Tuesday, after Merz failed to garner the necessary ...

BERLIN — Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party finished first in municipal polls in Germany's most populous state, but the biggest winner in the first electoral test since Merz's government took power was ...

The struggling German economy has been a major talking point among critics of Chancellor Olaf Scholz' government during the latest election campaign — but analysts warn a new leadership might not turn ...

The tech billionaire’s comments online have caused Germany’s government to claim he was ‘interfering’ in the country’s ...

Six candidates for Germany’s far-right AfD party have died in recent weeks ahead of local elections in the large western state of North Rhine Westphalia. Police have said there is no suggestion of ...

The leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Friedrich Merz addresses a press conference after a CDU party leadership's meeting at the party's headquarters the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus in ...

Election campaign posters for (from L) the Free Democrats (FDP), the Left Party (Die Linke), the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party (Die Gruenen), and the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Greens have enshrined in their election programme plans to abolish the contested Nord Stream 2 pipeline to ship Russian gas to Europe's biggest economy, creating a hurdle ...