German voters have had their say. Now their verdict is being turned into reality underneath the glass dome of Berlin’s ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank on Thursday labelled the auto sector as a key risk, a bleak warning from Germany's largest lender as the nation lines up big spending in defence and infrastructure.

AfD co-leader and chancellor candidate Alice Weidel waves a German flag at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, on February 23, 2025, after the German election results showed her party ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started exploratory talks on a possible coalition government.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

Berlin — Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation's second-largest.

Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters/Amanda R. Gray/U.S. Navy ‘Germany is back,” incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared Friday, and it may even be true. He was announcing an unprecedented ...

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A German flag flutters in the wind in front of the cupola of the Reichstag building that houses the Bundestag (lower house of German parliament) on February 24, 2025. (Photo by RALF HIRSCHBERGER ...

Before he can focus on German foreign policy, however, Merz's first task will be to put together a government capable of taking action. With only 28.6% of the vote, the conservative union of ...

Leader of far-right AfD Alice Weidel waves a German flag at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election. (AP Photo/Michael Probst ...