(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber), File FILE - General view inside the empty plenary hall of the German parliament Bundestag ... a meadow in Nieder-Erlenbach near Frankfurt, Germany, Feb. 5, 2025.

Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz said Thursday urgent action was needed to boost the country's under-resourced ...

BERLIN (AP) — German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a new parliament that will determine how the country is run for the next four years. Europe's biggest economy is the 27-nation European ...

BERLIN, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Germany's populist political parties look set to win enough seats to potentially gum up the workings of parliament - even if they don't form part of the next administration.

and CDU top candidate for chancellor Friedrich Merz in Frankfurt, Germany, Feb. 8, 2025. BERLIN — German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a new parliament that will determine how the ...

FILE - Election posters showing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and CDU top candidate for chancellor Friedrich Merz in Frankfurt, Germany, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File) ...

How easy it is to form a government may depend in part on how many parties are in the new parliament. Opinion polls show three parties hovering around the 5% of the vote needed to win seats.