Germany’s election continues a slump for left-leaning parties in affluent countries, often connected to immigration and the ...

F RIEDRICH MERZ, who is likely to become Germany’s next chancellor, used his victory in Sunday’s elections to issue a ...

The next German government faces calls to loosen borrowing rules, slash energy costs and spur innovation. It won’t be easy.

Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz warned the United States on Monday against turning its back on allies but also urged ...

Mohammad Azmouz, a Syrian barber living in Berlin, said casting his first ever vote on Sunday at the age of 57 was an ...

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

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

Friedrich Merz faces complex coalition negotiations after the far-right AfD surged to a historic second place in a fractured ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become the post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong ...