Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in the polls. By Clay Risen Reporting from Berlin Ever since the German ...

Jim Tankersley Christopher F. Schuetze Melissa Eddy and Clay Risen Friedrich Merz won a second-chance vote to become Germany’s chancellor on Tuesday afternoon, rebounding from a morning defeat ...

BERLIN—German politics used to be boring but stable. Now it’s neither. This was the central message from the chaotic transfer of power on Tuesday that saw Friedrich Merz, the conservative ...

Berlin, Germany – Germany is being accused of silencing pro-Palestinian voices, having ordered the deportations of three European nationals and a United States citizen over their alleged actions ...

Free Expression: Alternative for Germany more than doubled its 2021 vote share to 20% in the 2025 election, but the winning Christian Democratic Union, which sees the AfD as a pariah, has said it ...

European countries, including Germany, are commemorating the end of World War II on the continent. Europe's deadliest war came to an end 80 years ago. Ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of ...

Merz, the leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), was sworn in to office as the fifth chancellor of a reunified Germany on Tuesday evening. The neck-snapping events — with ...

Germany's intelligence agency, BfV, has classified the AfD as an extremist group, enabling closer monitoring due to its anti-immigration stance and controversial rhetoric. The decision follows ...

Germany's decision to label AfD as a "proven right-wing extremist endeavor" makes it easier for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany's spy agency, to conduct some types ...

On May 8, 1945, Germany was defeated by the allied forces. The years following the collapse of the Nazi regime are often described in Germany as its "zero hour." But what was it really like?

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in becoming Germany’s next chancellor, drawing applause and a palpable sense of relief in the parliament chamber after a ...

"This issue is about clarity, consistency and control," Dobrindt told reporters. Germany's Bild newspaper first reported the plans earlier on Wednesday. The rejection of asylum seekers is legally ...