Friedrich Merz is on track to be the next chancellor though his country’s traditional political stability has vanished.

Germans voted for change Sunday, and the most important questions now facing their country—and Europe—are whether and how ...

BERLIN — Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won an unexciting victory in a national election Sunday, ...

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

With Germany's election results in, Friedrich Merz emerges as a key figure who has promised to reshape Europe-US relations ...

Germany's likely new Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has shared his concerns about the future of NATO and defence in Europe.

The centre-right Christian Democrats are currently expected to win, while polls suggest Alternative for Germany (AfD) is ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

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

Germany’s conservative bloc, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union ...

The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...

German chancellor candidates have spoken publicly to their supporters after exit polls came out indicating the results of the ...