Europe’s biggest economy is the 27-nation European Union’s most populous nation and a leading member of NATO, as well as the ...

Top German politicians and chancellor candidates are meeting for a final TV debate on the state of the country on Thursday.

Germany will hold general parliamentary elections. One of the campaign issues is the continuing housing shortage as one of ...

Germany's Ruhr area used to be a Social Democrat stronghold, but the populist AfD has risen to popularity amid the region's ...

High energy prices, a weak labour force and low productivity growth are behind the ailing German economy – and voters are feeling the pinch.

If the AfD’s broader aim was to take green issues off the political agenda, the plan appears to be working. In the run-up to ...

Days before Germany’s election, signs of stagnation in the AfD campaign offer reasons to be cheerful amid right-wing bluster, ...

A new poll of German voters released on Thursday shows the centre-right opposition bloc still firmly in the lead, but points toward potentially complex coalition ...

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union is favored to replace Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party as ...

Heated rhetoric and divisive questions raise concerns about the fragility of democracy amid US-style politics.

In December, a Chicago-based organization called the Heartland Institute, which for decades has attempted to undermine the ...