This important election has galvanised voters, and campaigning resumed on Saturday evening with a final discussion on ...

A first-time voter in Germany says she's enthusiastic about finally having a say about issues she cares about.

Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be headed for the strongest showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday’s ...

Conservative leader and front-runner Friedrich Merz has cast his vote in the German election. Merz is the leader of the ...

Many Germans abroad forced to sit election out Some 3 to 4 million German citizens live outside the country, although not all ...

Turnout in the federal election, Germany’s 21st since the second world war, appears to be high. By 2pm on Sunday, 52 per cent of voters had cast their vote in polling stations, the Federal Returning ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats hold commanding lead against Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats in latest ...

Recession, inflation, a surge in violence and terrorist attacks caused by uncontrolled migration — German citizens go to the polls, driven by thoughts about the heap of problems that caused the ...

The Economist recently described Germany as “the hole at the heart of Europe”. That’s a reasonable description, particularly ...

The Ukrainian intelligence soldier doesn’t know how long his clinical death lasted after an explosive detonated beneath him.