EXCLUSIVE: Polling for the Daily Express shows that support for the right-wing Alternative for Deutschland party in Germany ...

Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its ...

Germany could face months of political uncertainty after the federal election on Feb. 23 as the winning party will almost ...

Germany has a complicated system: voters get two votes, one for the candidate in their own constituency, and another for a party's electoral list. There's also a minimum 5% threshold for a party to ...

Germany's conservative parties and far-right AfD lead in the polls, with the CDU’s Friedrich Merz likely to become chancellor ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

Ever since the end of World War II, Germany's mainstream political parties have vowed to not work with extremist right-wing ...