Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to ...

Senior officials in the Trump administration have lashed out at Berlin after Germany’s domestic intelligence agency last week ...

His countrymen, he declares, will have to ‘engage’ with the AfD, ‘factually and on substance.’ ...

Representatives for Germany's center-right Union bloc and the center-left Social Democrats on Monday formally signed a ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in becoming Germany’s next chancellor, drawing applause ...

Merz' appointment ends six months of political deadlock in the country after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ...

Merz was elected chancellor Tuesday during a second vote in parliament, hours after he suffered a historic defeat in the first round.

Germany's domestic intelligence service has classified the popular Alternative for Germany party as "extremist," allowing for ...

The centre-left party will send four women and three men to the cabinet of incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz.

The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholtz ... with 328 of the Bundestag’s 630 seats. The Union and Social Democrats have governed Germany together before: once in the 1960s, and then in ...