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At each stop on 1,000-mile trip, discombobulated Europeans are grappling with new and unsettling realities as the US reforges its alliances

Backing of Greens is tantamount to approval of chancellor-in-waiting’s proposal to relax debt brake

Friedrich Merz, expected to be next chancellor, has spoken of urgent need for ramped-up defence, but ‘blocking minority’ could form in future Bundestag

The success of the far-right AfD is a ‘final warning’ to democratic parties, the winner of Germany’s election warns

Germans on either side of the voting spectrum in the capital tell Tom Watling they voted out of fear

The conservative alliance led by Feidrich Merz took the most seats in the German Bundestag, but Alice Weidel’s far-right AfD is close behind.

Stance of German alliance’s leader could herald closer ties with France but ‘debt brake’ poses obstacle to spending

While the far-right representation in Germany's parliament doubled in size after weekend elections, the country's left wing also got a boost at the polls. With 8.5 percent of the vote, they easily crossed the five percent threshold to get back into active politics. RFI's Jan van der Made reports from…

The AfD doubles its vote share to 20.8 percent in weekend elections and becomes Germany’s second-largest party.