Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...

European shares were poised to snap their longest weekly winning streak in nearly a year on Friday, on elevated bond yields ...

Landau an der Isar, Kempten and Pfarrkirchen – these small towns may be unfamiliar to English, and indeed many German, ears.

At the most newsworthy Munich Security Conference in recent memory last weekend, Germany’s likely next chancellor did all he ...

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

Germany’s centre-right leader Friedrich Merz has won federal elections, and is set to steer Europe’s largest economy towards a more stable government as he seeks to form a coalition with the ...

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) narrowly wins national elections, setting the stage for Friedrich Merz to become ...

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

If the far-right AfD performs well in Germany's national elections, it could have major implications for the EU.

Exit polls in Germany's elections predict a win for the conservatives while the far-right Alternative for Germany is set to ...