German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has conceded defeat as the CDU/CSU secures victory in Germanys national election. The ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become the next Chancellor at a time of great tumult at home and abroad, writes John Kampfner.

BERLIN – Germany’s conservative election winner Friedrich Merz vowed to get to work Monday on the arduous task of building a ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

As a new chapter in German politics begins on Monday following the federal election at the weekend, there’s a distinct ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

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

He has repeatedly pledged not to work with the far-right anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party despite their second-place finish.

German auto industry investors can relax as the election produced a bland result. Anyone looking to find quick solutions to ...

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

Both the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland and the far-left Die Linke saw significant gains and were the most popular ...