From London to Stockholm, Paris to Berlin, hard-right politics have gone from fringe to front-row. Once treated as political ...

Several Volksbund officials I talked to said their biggest political patrons belonged to the Christian Democratic Union, Germany’s center-right party. One Green Party member I contacted told me ...

Election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU ... for Germany(AfD). The AfD has charged Merz was "breaking his election promises and surrendering to the SPD's debt madness." The party's ...

The senior leadership of Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats were due to begin talks on hammering out ...

The agreement reached with the Greens would allow Germany to spend up to €1 trillion on defence and infrastructure over the next decade. After days of intense debate, Germany's leading political ...

The leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party Friedrich Merz (L), the co-leaders of Germany's social democratic SPD party Saskia Esken (R) and Lars Klingbeil (2nd L) and the ...

BERLIN — Germany's new parliament on Tuesday elected as its speaker a conservative former minister, who called for civilized ...

and that the party was ready to seriously discuss security and defence capabilities in Germany. However, he described the CDU and SPD’s manoeuvres to gain the party’s support as “blackmail”.

Germany’s future chancellor Friedrich Merz on Saturday said his conservative CDU party has come to an agreement in principle with the Social Democrats (SPD) to form a coalition government.

Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the heart of power.