The racist, far-right, pro-Russia AfD— founded in 2013 as an anti-European Union party—is an outlier even among Europe’s nationalist parties. One senior leader has been twice convicted of using banned ...

Germany's conservatives win the vote, while the far right alternative has an unprecedented surge and the Social Democrats ...

The Christian-Democratic center-right party (CDU/CSU), led by Friedrich Merz, will return to be the ruling party with 220 ...

The Christian Democratic Union party is projected to win the election, but the far-right Alternative for Germany is set for its best result since World War II.

Exit polls project Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) garnered the biggest vote share in the country’s ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has admitted his Social Democratic Party (SPD) has suffered a "bitter election result," after ...

The vote comes at a pivotal time for Europe, which faces an increasingly assertive Trump administration.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats after what he called 'a bitter election ...

With international politics in flux, three leading historians give their views on the most consequential election in a ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be headed for the strongest showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday’s ...

The conservative CDU/CSU alliance led by Friedrich Merz won Sunday's elections with between 28.5 and 29 percent of the vote, ...