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

Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that simply banning the far-right Alternative for Germany would not ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz narrowly lost a vote in the Bundestag to become the next chancellor in an ...

Friedrich Merz's unprecedented first-round failure in the vote to make him German chancellor on Tuesday gave a boost to the ...

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has welcomed conservative leader Friedrich Merz failing to be elected the ...

It took two goes for Friedrich Merz to be elected Chancellor of Germany today. This is a huge blow to his authority, for ...

Years after being ousted from the AfD, former party leader Frauke Petry intends to launch a new political party in Germany.

Merz won in a second round of voting after failing to secure an absolute majority in an earlier round.

The so-called “Office for the Protection of the Constitution” alleges that AfD undermines the free democratic order and violates the principle of human dignity by denying migrants the same rights as ...

Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz was successfully elected chancellor of the country Tuesday after a historic ...