Having established a clear lead over both the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens, this motley movement of ...

Many supporters are unsettled by turbulent modern times and yearn for a return to a stable past. Read more at ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

Germany is preparing for elections after its previous three-party coalition collapsed. The main political parties are aligned ...

Friedrich Merz, the man expected to become Germany's next chancellor, has vowed to rule Europe's top economy by returning to his Christian Democrats' conservative roots, help business and crack down ...

When Germans go to vote in one week's time, after a polarising election campaign overshadowed by a far-right surge, they are ...

On European issues, the CDU president and future chancellor of Germany intends to lay boundaries to Brussels' prerogatives ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is in second place in opinion polls, at around 22%, behind the CDU/CSU ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), introduced a nonbinding motion in the ...

Yet another asylum seeker has just launched a deranged attack out of nowhere on innocent members of the public.

Party officials feel they can secure a blocking minority in the next Bundestag, the point when Weidel will become Germany’s ...

An empty pram lies forlorn, on a street covered in debris and police tape. In Munich, a failed Afghan asylum seeker has ...