He is being challenged by Jörg Urban of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Matthias Berger of the Free Voters of Saxony. To gain election in the first round, Kretschmer must secure ...

We must prepare for new violence," said the bishop of the Evangelical Church for central Germany, Friedrich Kramer. Eva von Angern, the leader of the Left Party in the German parliament for the region ...

Dozens of supermarket customers fell ill in Germany's eastern state of Saxony on Saturday after inhaling what media outlets described as "irritant gas." Customers were doing their grocery shopping ...

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk caused uproar after backing Germany's far-right party in a major newspaper ahead of key parliamentary elections in the Western European country, leading to the ...

The new digital platform aims to help people looking to work, study or join family in Germany, and is available to applicants from all over the world. Germany's Foreign Ministry has launched a new ...

By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting from Berlin Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany called a confidence vote in the German Parliament on Monday. He lost by a tally of 394-207, with 116 abstaining.

Elon Musk has backed Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) in a guest opinion piece the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. The article, published online, prompted the commentary editor ...

Ms. Sauerbrey is a German journalist who writes about Germany’s politics, society and culture. She wrote from Berlin. When I recently picked up a rental car in Las Vegas — I was in America to ...

The comments come after Musk, who first backed the AfD earlier this month, detailed his position in the German Welt am Sonntag newspaper, touching on a range of issues he said Germany must address ...

Confidence votes in Germany are relatively rare. It was called after the nation's three-party governing coalition collapsed amid infighting over how to modernize and boost the European Union's ...