How long all of that would take remains to be seen; in the past, it has varied greatly from government to government. In 2017 ...

Berlin — Germany’s conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, ...

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The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream.

The racist, far-right, pro-Russia AfD— founded in 2013 as an anti-European Union party—is an outlier even among Europe’s nationalist parties. One senior leader has been twice convicted of using banned ...

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Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is set to return to power with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

The Christian Democratic Union party is projected to win the election, but the far-right Alternative for Germany is set for ...

Germany's opposition conservatives triumph in the national election, setting Friedrich Merz on course to be the next ...

The euro opened higher in Asian trade on Monday as Germany's conservatives won its election as expected, with investors ...