Germany's rocky path towards Sunday's early elections began when the outgoing coalition government collapsed in acrimony on ...

This important election has galvanised voters, and campaigning resumed on Saturday evening with a final discussion on ...

Friedrich Merz, the man expected to become Germany's next chancellor, has vowed to rule Europe’s top economy by returning to ...

The conservative CDU/CSU alliance under Friedrich Merz is ahead in the polls, with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

Watch live as German voters go to the polls to elect a new parliament that will determine how the country is run for the next ...

The far-right AfD likely will score its best ever result as Europe's ailing economic powerhouse lurches rightwards. The ...

The contenders in Germany’s election are making their final appeals to voters. The opposition leader and front-runner vowed ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

Merz’s CDU and its sister party ... The centre-left Social Democrats, led by current chancellor Olaf Scholz, are in third place on some 16 per cent of the vote.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Potsdam direct candidate for the German Bundestag election, speaks at the election arena of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) on the topics of good work ...

The centre-left Social Democrats, led by current chancellor Olaf Scholz, are in third place on some 16 percent of the vote. If the polls were borne out, Merz and the conservatives would be in ...