Hoteliers in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern are concerned that tourists are canceling holiday bookings. They attribute this to the ...

Understanding the Alternative for Germany’s success in Sunday’s elections. By Amanda Taub The Alternative for Germany party came in second in federal elections on Sunday, doubling its vote ...

Germany is one of the most influential nations in Europe, which has a complex political system that includes both a president and a chancellor. The president of Germany serves as the head of state ...

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.

Before he can focus on German foreign policy, however, Merz's first task will be to put together a government capable of taking action. With only 28.6% of the vote, the conservative union of ...

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 ...

The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis. Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne ...

Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz on Thursday made concessions to the Green Party in the hopes it would lend critically important votes to his multi-billion-euro ...

Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters/Amanda R. Gray/U.S. Navy ‘Germany is back,” incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared Friday, and it may even be true. He was announcing an unprecedented ...

Friedrich Merz, who is on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after the country's election, has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent's security as it ...

“We want to be part of the solution, in terms of creating new business opportunities and diversifying trade,” said Tjorven Bellmann, Germany’s ambassador to Canada. She was speaking at a ...