Germans go to the polls on Sunday in a snap election called after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition. WHAT IS GERMANY'S HYBRID VOTING SYSTEM? Germany's reformed voting system ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

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

Friedrich Merz, a conservative rival of Angela Merkel, is on track to become the next chancellor, though the far-right AfD is ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

Concern is growing over the far-right Alternative for Germany party’s rise ahead of the German election. Its U.S. supporters ...

Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a ...

The German word “Zeitwende” signifies a major change of some kind that alters the present course of events. Chancellor Scholz ...

For the first time since the fall of the Third Reich 80 years ago, there is a real possibility that a party with direct ...

Germans are going to the polls on Sunday in national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will likely be a new chancellor and a new governing coalition. Usually a little dry and often ...

Germany's opposition leader Friedrich Merz is the front-runner in the country's election campaign, with his center-right ...

- Election posters showing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and CDU top candidate for chancellor Friedrich Merz in ...