The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis. Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne ...

Understanding the Alternative for Germany’s success in Sunday’s elections. By Amanda Taub The Alternative for Germany party came in second in federal elections on Sunday, doubling its vote ...

“The long-term consequences of how unification was managed after 1990 is having an effect, and it's widely felt in eastern Germany until today. If you look at the result of the AfD in Thuringia ...

Projections indicate that CDU won the highest number of votes, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) saw a major surge. (AP photo) ...

Germany’s chancellor-elect ... "For three years, we have been accompanied by the terrible images of destruction and war crimes. Europe remains firmly on the side of Ukraine.

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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 ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Jillian Melchior, and Kyle Peterson. Photo: Joel Marklund/Zuma Press/Damian Dovarganes/AP/Omar Ashtawy Apaimages ...

Centre-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz declared victory in Germany’s national election on Sunday after exit polls indicated his bloc was in the lead. Acknowledging the challenges ahead ...

Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option for forming a government amid a fragmented political landscape.

According to those who know him well, Merz ― Germany’s next chancellor ― is a person who is just as likely to be swayed by his own emotional reaction as through cold political calculation. That night ...