Omar Alkadamani, a Syrian-born, naturalised German citizen, used to support Germany's centre-left Social Democrats. Unsettled ...

The centrist Social Democratic and Green Parties both earned record low results, with 16 and 11 percent of the votes ...

Young Germans flocked to opposite ends of the political spectrum in the federal election, rejecting the centre.

Germany’s economy had stalled. In 2024, German GDP was 0.2 percent lower than in the previous year, and forecasts for 2025 ...

Not Germany’s much-discussed far-right party, the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, who are often described as modern-day ...

Populist far-right parties are moving from the political fringes to the mainstream, bringing their climate skepticism with ...

A sense of urgency is rising as parties on the extreme right and left may be able to block defense spending when Germany’s ...

Yields on benchmark German government bonds rose on Monday as the outcome of German general elections supported expectations ...

The Left (Die Linke) and the far-right AfD party scored big in Germany's federal election on Sunday. But their success has ...

Twenty-one lawmakers with Balkan roots have been elected to the new Bundestag – most of them with Turkish roots and ...

If he wants an effective governing majority, Chancellor Friedrich Merz must invite the AfD into the government.

The conservative CDU led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's 2025 election. Here's a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats ...