German voters cast their ballots in Sunday’s election , with opposition leader Friedrich Merz claiming victory and Chancellor ...

German voters cast their ballots in Sunday’s election, with opposition leader Friedrich Merz claiming victory and Chancellor ...

Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...

Germany has voted — and the exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz and his Conservative Party on course for a ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the country's presumptive next chancellor, has again ruled out cooperating with ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s new chancellor after provisional results confirmed his mainstream conservatives had ...

Germany's conservatives, led by Friedrich Merz, won the election but face complex coalition talks. The far-right AfD secured second place with its best result. Merz aims to stabilize Germany amidst ...

Follow DW for the latest. With just four days to the vote, Merz's CDU/CSU bloc is leading in the polls, with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in second, and Scholz's SPD trailing in third.

Merz and his party attempted last week to push a series of tough measures on asylum seekers through parliament with the support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), a taboo-breaking gambit ...

They were excluded by the “firewall”—an agreement among the other parties to refuse to collaborate with the AfD on anything. But on January 29, Merz cracked the firewall, introducing an anti ...