Friedrich Merz, the presumptive chancellor of Germany, has confirmed he will seek a coalition with the social democratic SPD ...

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

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have emerged victorious in Germany’s snap parliamentary elections, dealing a significant blow to ...

The American message in Munich a week ago made German-US relations an unexpectedly divisive German election issue. Germans ...

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

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

Friedrich Merz and his party, the CDU/CSU, are on the cusp of entering office and will face tough decisions ahead on how to ...

Winning the most votes and providing Germany's next chancellor — the conservative Union of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) has achieved ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the presumptive next chancellor, has won his constituency in Sunday's ...

Friedrich Merz’s party has won the most seats in Germany’s election. But after ridiculing the left and embracing far right ...

This alliance is also condemned by Germany’s Christian churches, which fear that "German democracy will suffer massive damage" if the "cordon sanitaire" that has existed until now is "abandoned." ...

The vote comes at a pivotal time for Europe, which faces an increasingly assertive Trump administration.