POLITICO has processed 35 years’ worth of election data to find out why this month’s vote is messier than ever ― and what will happen next.

If you want the policies of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), you can also vote Green. That is essentially the ...

Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of Germany, firmly defends her criticism of the CDU for cooperating with the AfD, ...

Merz's personal popularity is up four points in fresh polling released on Thursday – and his party gained too.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and other key European leaders are deep underwater in popular support, according to a new poll ...

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, leader ...

Friedrich Merz hopes to lure away AfD supporters, but will he alienate voters in the ideological middle?

The process of industrialization, globalization and urbanization—spreading out from urban centers into the countryside—is one ...

Up to 700,000 people demonstrated in towns throughout Germany on 1-2 Feb after the Bundestag (German Parliament) voted to ...

An ultimately failed tightening of German asylum policy with the help of the votes of the right-wing populist Alternative for ...

The CDU/CSU parties broke a long-held taboo in German politics last week by relying on far-right votes to push through a bill ...

The former German chancellor said it was not right to remain silent after her party, the conservative CDU, relied on votes ...