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 ...

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

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s next chancellor after his centre-Right Christian Democratic Union [CDU] party won ...

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

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 less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

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

While the far right made historic gains in Germany’s pivotal federal elections on Sunday, the conservative Christian ...

World leaders have congratulated Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), for winning the German ...

The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the second largest party in parliament after Sunday's election, ...