Merz, who took over as party leader in 2022, has since taken the CDU farther to the right, in a bid to reclaim votes from far ...
“We are practically no longer concerned at all, or only very little, with what comes from this coalition,” Friedrich Merz ...
Projections show the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, was on track to become the strongest party in a state ...
The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party is expected to perform strongly in Saxony and Thuringia. The two main rivals for the German chancellorship claim a mandate to govern after a tight ...
Germany is particularly sensitive to the strength of its far right. Its modern democratic structures were developed in the ...
That could leave the Christian Democratic Union, which may end up running both state governments, as the main beneficiary of the vote among traditional mainstream parties. While the results may ...
“We write in a moment of fierce urgency, as the people of God animated by faith, hope, and love,” said the statement, which ...