With international politics in flux, three leading historians give their views on the most consequential election in a ...

Friedrich Merz is expected to become the next chancellor. Voters in Germany don’t directly elect a chancellor. Instead, they ...

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 ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

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 ...

Sunday’s vote comes at a time of upheaval for Europe and its biggest economy as US President Donald Trump has ended a united ...

Voters in the world’s third-largest economy head to the polls on Sunday as Germany grapples with stagnation, creaking ...

Sunday's vote is being held more than half a year ahead of schedule after centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way ...

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 ...