The center-right opposition is favored to win, while polls point to the strongest result for a far-right party since World ...

This important election has galvanised voters, and campaigning resumed on Saturday evening with a final discussion on ...

What Germans decide in national elections that are likely to produce a new chancellor will be of critical importance as Europe re-evaluates relations with the Trump administration.

Friedrich Merz, the man expected to become Germany's next chancellor, has vowed to rule Europe’s top economy by returning to ...

The conservative CDU/CSU alliance under Friedrich Merz is ahead in the polls, with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

German voters heard last-day appeals from the leaders of the parties squaring off in national elections on Sunday, with the ...

Front-runner Friedrich Merz vows to revive Germany’s stagnant economy and defend Europe’s interests in the face of a ...

The far-right AfD likely will score its best ever result as Europe's ailing economic powerhouse lurches rightwards. The ...

At a pivotal time for Europe and NATO, Germany holds elections on Sunday. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Constanze Stelzenmüller of the Brookings Institution about the stakes of the election.

A speech-regulation industry that was booming under Biden has gone bust under Trump. Over the last four years, massive ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

Regardless of the outcome, Sunday's German election marks a rejection of the centrist political establishment and a shift to ...