The 69-year-old head of the center-right Union bloc, which won the country’s national election with 28.6 percent of the votes, has by far the best chance of forming a new government.

Recent Germany's conservative bloc, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), has won in the ...

"The parallels between the United States of today and the Germany of 1933 are shocking," writes one reader. Another: "It is high time for Republican senators to stop behaving like a fearful animal ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the country's second largest party after its historic performance in the national election. It received 20.8% of the vote in the poll, finishing behind the ...