With all constituencies counted, the centre-right Christian Democratic Union has claimed victory, while minnows, including ...

Germany's conservative election winner Friedrich Merz faced an uphill struggle to build a coalition government on Monday, a ...

Europe is "at the start of a new era" and needs to learn to rely on itself, Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said on ...

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

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German stocks rose considerably as Friedrich Merz-led conservatives won the national election. The STOXX 600 index climbed, with real estate and utility stocks leading gains. Merz is set to become the ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz aims to swiftly establish a government following a national election win, despite facing complex coalition negotiations. The recent surge in far-right and far ...

Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the country's second-largest party ...

The relatively weak reading reflects the difficulty in turning around Germany's fortunes for incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democratic Union scored a comfortable victory in the ...

The Kremlin said on Monday it would have to wait and see how ties between Russia and any new German government evolved after ...

A fresh start for Germany looks less likely after the center-right won less convincingly than had been expected, Joerg ...