Friedrich Merz, the leader of the centre-Right Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), has emerged as the winner of Germany’s ...

Germany’s mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the country’s national election, ensuring that Ukraine has an ...

Germany's likely next chancellor warned Europe can no longer rely on its American allies: "I never thought I would end up one ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s center-right Christian Democrats, who finished first in Sunday’s election, has vowed ...

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

Put simply, more than four in every five of Germany's 59.2 million voters turned out. It reflects just how energised Germans ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s next chancellor after his centre-Right Christian Democratic Union [CDU] party won ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become the next Chancellor at a time of great tumult at home and abroad, writes John Kampfner.

Analysts say Friedrich Merz will have one shot at fending off ascending populists and an increasingly hostile U.S.

The far-right AfD and the Left jointly secured the one third of seats needed to block constitutional changes. Both oppose ...

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

Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election​, while far ...