The Bundestag elected CDU leader Friedrich Merz as Chancellor of Germany on the second attempt. The previous vote ended in defeat for the politician. Commentators also see it as a setback for the ...

The co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has described the country's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz as a ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has officially designated the country's main opposition party a right-wing extremist ...

Friedrich Merz has secured a majority in the second round of voting at the German Bundestag, averting a constitutional crisis. Follow DW for more.

Addressing the Bundestag, incoming Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt concentrated on two points: closing the borders to ...

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt says that the number of people turned back at the country’s borders increased by ...

Germany needs to resume natural gas imports from Russia, to cope with the crisis in industry. This was stated to German ...

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

Friedrich Merz reacts after he failed to be elected new chancellor in the first voting process at the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Tuesday, May 6, 2025.

Vice Chairman of the German Bundestag Omid Nuripour has called on new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to agree on the ...

He was finally approved as chancellor by Germany’s president and sworn in at the Bundestag on Tuesday afternoon. But his tenure will start on an unstable footing: The day’s votes not only ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) supports a second vote in parliament for chancellor taking place on Wednesday, the party co-leader said after conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to ...