Thursday's White House meeting between Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Donald Trump was highly anticipated and top news in Germany. Only just under half of the eligible German voters taking ...

Voting has started in the German state of Hesse, where nearly 4. 7 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots in local elections on Sunday, marking another test for the country's ruling ...

Germany's Greens were heading for an upset victory over Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) in a closely watched election in the south-western state of ...

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

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers voted Friday to suspend family reunions for many migrants, part of a drive by the new conservative-led government for a tougher approach to migration. Parliament's lower ...

The latest electoral surge by Germany's far-right AfD highlights the decline of the mainstream parties who scored narrow, last-gasp victories thanks mainly to a dwindling band of elderly voters. The ...

BERLIN -- Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party finished first in municipal polls in Germany's most populous state, but the biggest winner in the first electoral test since Merz's government took power ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU is set to remain the strongest party at the local level in the central state of Hesse.

Friedrich Merz’s halting path to the chancellor’s office inflamed his challenges at home and abroad, including a threat from the far right. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin Friedrich Merz’s ...