The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is ...

A month ago, Die Linke looked likely to miss the ... the Social Democrats, the hard-right Alternative for Germany and the Green Party. It was a remarkable comeback, powered by young voters ...

Top candidates of the left-wing Die Linke (The Left) party Heidi Reichinnek (C) and Jan van Aken (L) react with Co-leader of Germany's The Left (Die Linke) party Ines Schwerdtner during the ...

Germany is at a crossroads and now for Friedrich Merz the hard work begins, writes Berlin correspondent Jessica Parker.

Talking to voters about the many non-conspiracy reasons they vote for a far-right party can help break "the glass door." ...

Germany’s conservatives won the national election ... Strong support, particularly from younger voters, pushed the far-left Die Linke party to 8.7 per cent of the vote. The pro-market Free ...

Germany’s socialist Die Linke, or Left Party ... a former Left Party lawmaker and a veteran of Germany’s hard left. Wagenknecht has described herself as a “conservative leftist” - in ...

Goldman Sachs notes that the challenge lies in AfD and Die Linke holding ... and Europeans for German political and economic stability will not end today, and it's hard to see the next government ...

The wound was deepened by the capture of close to a quarter of the seats in the Bundestag by the hard-right Alternative for Germany (afd ... But while Die Linke detests the debt brake, it ...

But the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the hard-left Die Linke have together won more than the 210 seats needed for a “blocking minority” in the German parliament. That gives ...