Far-right gains and a ‘sharper and edgier’ chancellor are among the takeaways from the country’s contest, an expert says.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Exit polls show the center-right Christian Democratic Union party leading, with the AfD party heading towards the strongest ...

The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream.

Polls are open across Germany as the world’s third largest economy chooses a new leader to guide it through an era of febrile ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — French far-right leader Jordan Bardella on Friday canceled his planned remarks here at the ...

Elon Musk endorsed AfD, an anti-immigration party that just won the most support of any far-right party since World War II.

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

The man poised to become Germany's next chancellor accused President Trump of being indifferent to Europe’s plight and blasted Washington’s interference in the general election. Friedrich Merz has ...

Former top Trump adviser Steve Bannon denies making Nazi salute at CPAC and says Jordan Bardella is "unworthy to lead France" ...

The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the fringe have gone mainstream.

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, used his closing statement of the debate to promise his voters that he would ...