An election poster of CDU top candidate Friedrich Metz stands on a field in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/)

"It's possible, if not inevitable" that Germany's CDU/CSU will govern with the AfD, as a means to pursuing a conservative agenda, says Eric Langenbacher, teaching professor at Georgetown University. "That's not going to happen this time around,

At the most newsworthy Munich Security Conference in recent memory last weekend, Germany’s likely next chancellor did all he could to look unfazed by the unexpected endorsement of its far-right AfD party by U.

In Saxony, our correspondent hears why young voters are increasingly supporting the AfD. The party is polling consistently in second place ahead of a snap election next Sunday. LO

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

Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian CSU sister party are topping polls for the election on February 23 and are likely to lead the next government.

Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer and working with major corporations.

Hospital manager Kathrin Leffler says she worries Germany's tense pre-election debate on immigration will make it harder to recruit enough skilled workers from abroad to fill a growing labour shortage.

We are now a few days away from the German general election (on the 23 rd ), which is becoming even more significant in the context of the Munich Peace

Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a member of the regional parliament of Saxony-Anhalt in eastern Germany, has blamed his area’s economic problems on Bauhaus modernism.

- Election posters, showing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and CDU top candidate Friedrich Merz, stand on a meadow in Nieder-Erlenbach near Frankfurt, Germany, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael