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

What Germans decide in national elections that are likely to produce a new chancellor will be of critical importance as ...

If the far-right AfD performs well in Germany's national elections, it could have major implications for the EU.

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

Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, putting its leader Friedrich Merz in pole position to be next chancellor. Follow ...

Germans vote in a national election on Sunday which is expected to see Friedrich Merz's conservatives regain power and the ...

German voters are heading to the polls Sunday for a national election. The race pits the incumbent chancellor against the ...

German voters are choosing their new government in an election dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of Europe ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be headed for the strongest showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday's ...

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

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

The election is taking place seven months before it was originally planned after center-left Scholz's coalition collapsed ...