Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz stepped up his attacks on rival Robert Habeck from the Greens as the campaign ahead of Germany’s federal election enters the final stretch.

The German election campaign draws to a close on Saturday with parties hoping to attract undecided voters in a flurry of final events, as conservative leader Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU bloc remains far ...

More than 59 million German citizens are eligible to vote, including 2.3 million first-time voters and over 7 million with ...

According to YouGov’s final MRP poll before the election, the far-right AfD’s 145 seats will surpass the 115 projected for ...

And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...

The far-right AfD – which is anti-reform – trails the CDU on 21 per cent, with the ruling SPD on 16 per cent and the Greens ...

The AfD is currently polling in second place on 21%, nine points behind the frontrunners - the Christian Democrats (CDU).

In a survey out last year, women aged 14 to 29 reported significantly less support for Merz’s party than their male peers ...

Europe has been nervously watching the election campaign of the continent’s biggest economy, whose importance at a time of global upheaval can hardly be overstated.

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.

The German government is preparing for an upheaval in its parliament as citizens head to the ballot box following the collapse of the nation's ruling coalition.