If polls are correct, Olaf Scholz’s successor could be the 69-year-old leader of the Christian Democratic Union. He is ...

Migration was already set to dominate Germany’s election campaign, which starts in earnest in the New Year. But Friday ...

Musk wrote on social media that only AfD, the country’s most prominent extreme-right party, “can save Germany.” ...

Elon Musk, the billionaire whose support for Donald Trump has given him the president-elect's ear, is throwing his support ...

Friedrich Merz is a longtime rival of Angela Merkel who has tried to move their party back to the right.

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire ex-corporate lawyer who ...

Opposition CDU and governing SPD offer starkly competing visions as they prepare to unveil election manifestos ...

Europe’s largest economy and normally a pillar of stability is facing snap elections next year after Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

The conservative leader’s attacks signal the next government may be just as discordant as the one that recently fell.

Friedrich Merz, the favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, has denied his conservative bloc's manifesto contains ...