News, analysis, opinion and polling data on the German federal election in February 2025. An interactive graphic failed to load. This is most likely due to being offline or JavaScript being ...

Almost all of the old East Germany has turned AfD blue. The party has always been more popular in German areas that were once under Soviet rule, but this year has tightened its grip. Image ...

Young Germans leaned to the far ends of the political spectrum in Sunday’s election, with most backing Die Linke (The Left) and the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD), or Alternative ...

By Amanda Taub The Alternative for Germany party came in second in federal elections on Sunday, doubling its vote share from four years ago, in the strongest showing for a German far-right party ...

I know that no one cares about foreign policy; but this is important. So let me bottom-line it for you: Germany is going to get nuclear weapons at the exact moment that the German youth vote is ...

Ed Turner receives funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Friedrich Merz, the presumptive chancellor of Germany, has confirmed he will seek a ...

We take a closer look at how Germans voted this time around. That the conservative Union parties (CDU/CSU) won the most votes in Sunday’s election, followed by the far-right Alternative for ...

Most of all it is facing the unprecedented collapse of relations with the U.S., on whom Germans have relied on for security since the end of World War Two. Read More: Exclusive: Alice Weidel on ...

Around 83.5 per cent of Germans had turned out to vote, the highest figure since the reunification in 1990. Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for Social Democrats after what he called "a ...

Live Page editor. A text and video journalist based in London, Stephen is a former Reuters bureau chief in Jerusalem. He was previously a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and The Times ...

For one in five Germans it has become normalised. "They're just normal people," said one young man of immigrant origin in Duisburg, a city in western Germany's old industrial heartland.