A long-time rival of centrist ex-chancellor Angela Merkel within the CDU party, Merz has attacked her open-door migrant policy and drawn her ire for accepting support from the far-right AfD on the ...

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned Europeans "stark strategic realities" would prevent the US from being primarily ...

A fresh start for Germany looks less likely after the center-right won less convincingly than had been expected, Joerg ...

German conservatives under likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed on Monday to move quickly to try to form a coalition ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU win in Germany's early election signaled a shift in the political landscape, as dissatisfaction with ...

Last month, the German Bundestag passed a "five-point migration plan" that entailed a dramatic tightening of the country's ...

Conservatives expected to have tough coalition talks after the far-right AfD surged to become Germany’s second-largest party.

The 69-year-old head of the centre-right Union bloc, which won the country's national election with 28.6 per cent of the ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats after what he called “a bitter election result.” ...

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Germany’s Friedrich Merz takes swipe at Trump and calls for ‘independence from the USA’ - Germany’s likely next chancellor ...

BERLIN - The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Germany's Left party jointly secured one third of seats in the new parliament that is required to block changes to the constitution, including ...