The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

Germany’s far-right AfD party looks set to make large gains when the country heads to the polls on Sunday. The centre-right ...

Germany’s rocky path towards Sunday’s early elections began when the outgoing coalition government collapsed on November 6, ...

Germany's rocky path towards Sunday's early elections began when the outgoing coalition government collapsed on November 6, the very day Donald Trump won re-election to the White House.

The rigid net zero stance of Olaf Scholz’s coalition has become electoral dynamite ...

When Donald Trump won the US election in November, Germany’s government imploded. Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance ...

Germany’s once stable and drearily predictable politics are in disarray. At the end of last year, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ...

Interview with philosopher and political scientist Angelo Bolaffi on the eve of the vote in Germany: "The German electorate is in shock after Munich, an attack that risks weighing on the vote". The ...

Triggered after the breakdown of the coalition led by Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the campaign for the February ...

Sunday's vote is a pivotal moment for the Alternative for Germany party. It's polling high enough for second place as part of a far-right surge sweeping Europe.

After the highly unusual U.S. interventions, the AfD remains in second place heading into Germany’s federal election on ...