Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.
Germans delivered a major election win for their conservative party Sunday. Tim Ross, chief political correspondent in Europe and the U.K. for Politico, joins "America Decides" to examine what the result means for America as the next German chancellor is expected to face pressure from President Trump and the far-right.
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Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s election.
Germany's federal and state government tax revenue rose 8.9% in January from the previous year, the finance ministry said in its monthly report on Tuesday.
The next German government faces calls to loosen borrowing rules, slash energy costs and spur innovation. It won’t be easy.
Germany’s businesses have been frustrated by government inaction on the stagnating economy. Sunday’s national election raises hopes of a stable two-party coalition of conservatives and center-left Social Democrats,
Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big implications for Europe.
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