Germany could rush measures to finance a huge hike in spending on defence and military aid for Ukraine through its outgoing parliament, as the country scrambles to form a government amid signs of a dramatic shift in US foreign policy.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's disastrous meeting in the White House on Friday has left Germany in a state of shock. Likely government partners CDU/CSU and SPD want to invest billions in defense.

Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.

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 (AfD) party now firmly established in German politics.

Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, and Alice Weidel, of the far-right AfD.

The influence of the far-right AfD party has grown in Germany following the elections. Constitutional law experts warn of attacks on democracy. The far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD ...

Should an AfD-led Germany withdraw from NATO, the alliance would surely collapse, as would an EU without Germany. Instead, a German-Russian alliance would fill Europe’s security vacuum and

German voters will vote to choose their new Bundestag on Sunday (3). Here is everything you need to know about elections for the lower house of the German Parliament

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.

After Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won a plurality of seats in federal elections Sunday, party leader Friedrich Merz

Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the presumptive next chancellor, has won his constituency in Sunday's parliamentary election, while a number of political heavyweights suffered humiliating defeats.