Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...

Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, putting its leader Friedrich Merz in pole position to be next chancellor. Follow ...

The author takes the reader through these last months of democracy, minute by minute, day by day, blow by blow.

What Germans decide in national elections that are likely to produce a new chancellor will be of critical importance as ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be headed for the strongest showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday’s ...

If the far-right AfD performs well in Germany's national elections, it could have major implications for the EU.

Nazi Germany then and Russia’s Vladimir Putin now — the worst strategy is to make concessions before talks formally begin. And to exclude Ukraine, the victim of the invasion, at least in initial talks ...