Germany's politicians face mounting pressure to speed up forming a new government and provide fresh aid to Kyiv as Berlin reels from the blazing row between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump.

Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.

Economically troubled Germany just held elections and will soon have a new government. The conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) is likely to create a coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SDP),

He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany (AfD) party now firmly established in German politics.

Paul Hockenos is a journalist and author based in Berlin. His most recent book is “Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin.”

U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to end the Russia-Ukraine war without Europe’s participation (or Ukraine’s) and threatening 25% tariffs on EU imports. “The European Union was formed to screw the United States,

Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

Friedrich Merz's CDU won Germany's elections with 28.6 percent, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) recorded big gains.

Germany has long been considered to have relatively ambitious climate goals and it’s likely that combatting climate change will remain a priority.

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but Germany is facing political uncertainty with an emboldened far right. The

Similarities to MAGA are skin deep. The party’s leaders prefer closer ties with Russia, not the U.S.