Young Germans flocked to opposite ends of the political spectrum in the federal election, rejecting the centre.

CDU's Friedrich Merz has claimed victory while SPD's Olaf Scholz has regretted the "bitter" election result. The German ...

“That feeds into this whole far-right populist narrative that the mainstream parties are abandoning those areas,” Lueders ...

The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to ...