The first of five state elections this year is being seen as a barometer of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's popularity A survey ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz ⁠faces ⁠his first electoral test since taking ⁠office last May on Sunday, when voters go to ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's centre-right CDU faces a regional election Sunday, the first of several this year in which ...

During the campaign in the lead-up to the vote, one of the AfD’s national party leaders, Alice Weidel, appeared in front of Mercedes-Benz’s biggest factory, outside Stuttgart, alongside the party’s ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in fewer than four years. The latest result cements a shift to the right in Europe.

Chancellor Merz's CDU is neck-and-neck with the Greens ahead of elections in Baden-Württemberg on Sunday. Plus, one in four ...

Özdemir’s election slogan was “economy, economy, economy”, portraying his state’s fate as a precursor to the wider German picture. CDU frontman Hagel meanwhile has promised drastic reforms to stop the ...

Germany's centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has emerged as the strongest party in local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, according to initial projections ...

Alice Weidel may get the last laugh yet. The co-leader of Germany’s most popular party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), was visibly amused on Tuesday morning when Friedrich Merz, the head of the ...