Following the election, the party with the most votes will nominate a candidate for chancellor. The candidate must secure an absolute majority in the Bundestag to be sworn in as the country's new ...

German authorities said a Syrian suspect was intending “to kill Jews” when he stabbed a tourist in Berlin on Friday, the ...

The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

More than 59 million German citizens are eligible to vote, including 2.3 million first-time voters and over 7 million with ...

And the plan seemed to be working. Local media spotted around 80 voters grabbing the offer within the first hour after ...

Germans go to the polls Sunday. Chancellor Scholz's Social Democrats are likely to lose to the conservative CDU party, as the ...

A conservative backlash is brewing in Germany, but the likely winners are working to make the transition pragmatic and ...

Regardless of the outcome, Sunday's German election marks a rejection of the centrist political establishment and a shift to ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

As Germany prepares to elect a new government on Sunday, immigration has emerged as the defining issue. A decade after former Chancellor Angela Merkel's confident declaration that Germany could manage ...

Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor ...

Sunday's vote is a pivotal moment for the Alternative for Germany party. It's polling high enough for second place as part of a far-right surge sweeping Europe.