Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) faces difficult discussions about personnel and priorities after a chastening defeat in the state election in Rhineland-Palatinate on Sunday. "Of course I bear ...

The historic collapse of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) - the latest iteration of which came on Sunday in the south-western ...

By James Mackenzie and Friederike Heine BERLIN, March 22 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative ...

In Sunday's closely watched state election, both the far-right Alternative for Germany party and Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party, the Christian Democratic Union, made significant gains.

The Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, is shunned in federal politics but is a regional force. This fall, it could win ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party has made a disappointing start to a year packed with German state elections, suffering a narrow defeat in an important industrial region after a prominent candidate ...

Württemberg, ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU. The far-right AfD was the third strongest party, having made ...

A series of five state elections and a wave of local contests across the country — what Germans are calling a “super election year” — is exposing the steady erosion of the traditional left-right ...

(JTA) — BERLIN – The antisemitism commissioner for the German state of Brandenburg has resigned from his far-left party over ...

But the Greens, which have led coalition governments in Baden-Württemberg since 2011, narrowly secured the largest share of ...

GIESSEN, Germany (AP) — A confident far-right Alternative for Germany set up its new youth organization on Saturday even as thousands of protesters converged on the western city of Giessen, where the ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives look set to oust the centre-left Social Democratic Party on Sunday in a closely watched state election in which the far right also made big gains, ...