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

Germany’s businesses have been frustrated by government inaction on the stagnating economy. Sunday’s national election raises ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the centre-Right Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), has emerged as the winner of Germany’s ...

Merz, who is set to become Germany’s next Chancellor, said that the Trump administration is ignoring Europe and growing ...

Chancellor-in-waiting may ask for shelter under UK and France’s nuclear umbrella as he calls for Europe to build up its ...

Friedrich Merz, whose party won the most seats in Germany's federal election, is likely to become the next chancellor.

Following the victory of the Christian Democrats with Friedrich Merz in the Bundestag election, Brussels has not only offered ...

Germany now faces weeks to months of negotiations as the conservatives, under presumptive Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz, ...

Germany took a huge step to the right. The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) ran a campaign focused on law and order and ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s conservative opposition, achieved a modest victory in the national election. The ...

“This is a historic success for us—our best result ever,” AfD’s chancellor candidate and co-leader, Alice Weidel, told ...

BERLIN—Provisional results confirmed 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. Merz, ...