Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has been the longtime frontrunner in this contest. Regularly polling at over 30 per cent, the Union party comprising the CDU and its Bavarian ...

Polls are now open across Germany in an election that could shape Europe’s response to the new Trump administration, the Russia-Ukraine war and security across the continent. The election comes seven ...

Alice Weidel, the first ever candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party for the post of Chancellar, lives ...

What Germans decide in national elections that are likely to produce a new chancellor will be of critical importance as ...

Germany heads to the polls in high-stakes elections today to choose the next chancellor, with conservatives favored to win.

The election is taking place seven months before it was originally planned after center-left Scholz's coalition collapsed ...

German voters are choosing their new government in an election dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of Europe ...

As an openly gay politician who lives with her Sri Lanka-born partner in Switzerland, Alice Weidel was an unusual choice to ...

Around 250 protesters demonstrated against AfD leader Alice Weidel in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, where she has a home, leading ...