Germans go to the polls on Sunday in a snap election called after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition. WHAT IS GERMANY'S HYBRID VOTING SYSTEM? Germany's reformed voting system ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

As Germany prepares to elect a new government on Sunday, immigration has emerged as the defining issue. A decade after former ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces its biggest economic and diplomatic crises in decades and Europe looks ...

A conservative backlash is brewing in Germany, but the likely winners are working to make the transition palatable for all citizens. The Union parties — the Christian Democratic ...

The German word “Zeitwende” signifies a major change of some kind that alters the present course of events. Chancellor Scholz ...

For the first time since the fall of the Third Reich 80 years ago, there is a real possibility that a party with direct ...

Berlin (CNN) — Germans are going to the polls on Sunday in national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will likely be a new chancellor and a new governing coalition. Usually a little dry and ...

Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian CSU sister party are topping polls for the election ...

Among CDU supporters a coalition with the FDP (36%) or the SPD (32%) are the most popular. Only 8% are in favor of a coalition with the Greens, and only 6% want to form a coalition with the AfD.

Delegates wait for the start of the 37th Federal Party Conference of the CDU. The CDU wants to adopt an "immediate program" at the party conference, which is to be implemented immediately after ...

We won't tolerate them, we are not holding any talks with the AfD." The exchange took place on the sidelines of the final CDU party conference ahead of Germany's February 23 election. Last ...