Voting will soon close in national elections. Polls show the hard-right AfD party is likely to have its best showing ever.

Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...

The center-right opposition is favored to win, while polls point to the strongest result for a far-right party since World ...

German citizens aged 18 and up can vote. At least 59.2 million people in the nation of 84 million are eligible, about 2.3 ...

Europe's anchor nation is on the line Sunday as German voters pick between AfD, CDU and SDP for the next Bundestag and ...

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

Germany's mainstream parties lost support while the far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) gained ground in a poll published ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

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

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

While polling suggests Germany's far-right AfD party will fare well, it's very unlikely to be part of the next government of ...

For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.