Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces economic and diplomatic crises.

His promise to represent everyone comes amidst clear and stark divides in Germany. This election has again highlighted an east-west split, decades on from ... "Alice fur Deutschland" – in reference to ...

Germany’s conservative CDU has won the most votes, with party leader Friedrich Merz signalling he hopes to ... parliamentary term of 1957 to 1961 when the CDU/CSU won elections in West Germany.

Ms. Weidel grew up in a middle-class Catholic family in Harsewinkel, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, in the country’s west ... Germany has become something of a sore subject for the leader ...

members of the diplomatic corps and a group of Jewish leaders to pay tribute to Belsen’s Jewish dead. It was the first visit of any high West German official to the place since former President ...