Heidi Reichinnek, member of the German federal parliament and member of the Left Party (Die Linke) and Jan van

Struggling a month ago, the Die Linke party surged into Parliament by riding a backlash against conservative immigration policy.

An alliance between Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the center-left SPD is the only viable path to form a new government for Germany.

He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the country's second-largest party.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany (AfD) party now firmly established in German politics.

BERLIN ― Germany’s far-left Die Linke party ― or The Left ― was struggling with declining support for years. So when its star politician, Sahra Wagenknecht, broke away at the end of 2023 to launch a new populist force, many wrote the party off for ...

Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, and Alice Weidel, of the far-right AfD.

The parallels between the two are unmistakable: unhappy electorates, unpopular leaders, the politics of inflation and immigration, a struggling center-left party, an ascendant populist right. But it is not just that Germany is hearing echoes of the U.S ...

A new band of influencers unafraid of confrontation has helped elevate the Alternative for Germany party to second in pre-election polls.