The vote comes at a pivotal time for Europe, which faces an increasingly assertive Trump administration.

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.

German voters are heading to the polls Sunday for a national election. The race pits the incumbent chancellor against the ...

Germany's conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany came in second, its ...

The relationship between Europe and the U.S. is one of the world's longest alliances, and yet it has never been more closely ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz vowed to move quickly to put together a coalition government. But that's likely to be a complicated task.

Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, has said "from tomorrow we start working" on forming a government as the far-right AfD won its best-ever results.

The Christian Democratic Union and its allied Christian Social Union secured the largest share of votes in the German federal ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany's chancellor after a historic election, aims to secure European independence from the U.S. amid complex coalition negotiations. Despite rising far-right ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the country's presumptive next chancellor, has again ruled out cooperating with ...