If polls are correct, Olaf Scholz’s successor could be the 69-year-old leader of the Christian Democratic Union. He is ...

Opposition CDU and governing SPD offer starkly competing visions as they prepare to unveil election manifestos ...

Ten weeks away from elections and with a double-digit lead over his closest rival's party, conservative leader Friedrich Merz ...

The conservative leader’s attacks signal the next government may be just as discordant as the one that recently fell.

Musk wrote on social media that only AfD, the country’s most prominent extreme-right party, “can save Germany.” ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor shares his party’s pro-EU and Atlanticist instincts, but also the country’s wider reluctance ...

Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela ...

(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and the faction leader of the German Christian Democratic ...

Migration was already set to dominate Germany’s election campaign, which starts in earnest in the New Year. But Friday ...

Leading contenders in Germany’s upcoming election have presented their programs, setting out contrasting visions of how to ...

Friedrich Merz is a longtime rival of Angela Merkel who has tried to move their party back to the right.

Ten weeks away from elections and with a double-digit lead over his closest rival's party, conservative leader Friedrich Merz ...