Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election while a far-right party surged to become the nation’s second-largest ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader ...

Exit polls in Germany show that the country's conservative union of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union ...

Merz has warned against more paralysis in Berlin at a time US President Donald Trump is driving head-spinning change, the ...

The Left won 8.8 percent of the vote, nearly doubling its share from the last election. It performed especially well in the ...

CDU leader Friedrich Merz vows to get to work on the arduous task of building a new coalition government on Monday ...

Germany's conservatives won the country's snap elections, but many in the party are disappointed at its overall showing. The ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Left Party jointly secured one third of seats in the new parliament, enough to block a loosening of Germany's debt brake - a mechanism some ...

President Trump and Elon Musk float the idea of giving taxpayers checks with savings from government cuts. Germany’s ...

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

Friedrich Merz, likely Germany's next chancellor, said he was under "no illusions" about the White House's impact on ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in fewer than four years after the head of the centre-right opposition, Friedrich ...