Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament ...

Representatives for Germany's center-right Union bloc and the center-left Social Democrats on Monday formally signed a ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to ...

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too ...

(CN) — Alternative for Germany, a far-right anti-immigrant party that now tops opinion polls only two months after it scored ...

The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholtz ... with 328 of the Bundestag’s 630 seats. The Union and Social Democrats have governed Germany together before: once in the 1960s, and then in ...

Germany's domestic intelligence service has classified the popular Alternative for Germany party as "extremist," allowing for ...

Merz' appointment ends six months of political deadlock in the country after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ...

The formation of the next German government is in the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) court, now that the country's two major conservative parties have okayed the coalition agreement. The ...

Merz has been widely expected to become the leader of Europe’s largest economy following Germany’s federal election in ...