The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

Final poll predicts large gains for AfD hours before voters cast ballots - Germany heads to the polls for the fourth snap ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces its biggest economic and diplomatic crises in decades and Europe looks ...

There is a consensus at national and EU level that if the continent is to meet growing defence spending needs, due to the ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

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

Merkel ran in the first elections of a united Germany in December 1990 and won narrowly in a constituency she would represent ...

When Donald Trump won the US election in November, Germany’s government imploded. Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance ...

Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor ...