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 ...

Germany's conservative CDU/CSU bloc won the national election with 28.7% of the vote, positioning leader Friedrich Merz as a ...

Christian Lindner triggered early elections last fall with a move meant to save his party. It brought chaos at an inopportune ...

What was once a natural party of government is now a mere ... regime of proportional representation in Germany nowadays tends to fragment the party system and allow extreme groups into parliament.