Christian Democratic Union likely to finish first and ask centre-left Social Democratic Party to form centrist alliance, ...

For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...