The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to ...

“That feeds into this whole far-right populist narrative that the mainstream parties are abandoning those areas,” Lueders ...

Friedrich Merz, the presumptive chancellor of Germany, has confirmed he will seek a coalition with the social democratic SPD ...

Germany’s businesses have been frustrated by government inaction on the stagnating economy. Sunday’s national election raises ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become the next Chancellor at a time of great tumult at home and abroad, writes John Kampfner.

After a 10-year reconstruction process, the Reichstag in Berlin finally became the German Parliament building in 1999.

While the far right made historic gains in Germany's elections on Sunday, Conservative politician Friedrich Merz won with ...

The centre-right CDU has emerged as the biggest party in the German election, making Merz the most likely to lead a ...

Germany’s hard left has two main parties. Add them together and the dynamics are clearer. Treating Die Linke and BSW as one ...

Authorities in Berlin have detained a teenage Syrian refugee after a man was stabbed near the city’s Holocaust Memorial late ...

Migrants who have settled in the German city of Magdeburg say they have experienced a sharp increase in racism and ...