Germany’s conservative CDU party has won the election, securing Friedrich Merz as the next chancellor. However, right behind ...

Germans voted for change Sunday, and the most important questions now facing their country—and Europe—are whether and how ...

The euro got a small boost from the CDU/CSU being able to form a coalition only with the SPD, without any smaller third party ...

The conservatives will first enter talks without Scholz, who apologised for SPD's bitter defeat at 16%, while his popular ...

By Kirsti Knolle and Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) -German conservatives under Friedrich Merz vowed on Monday to quickly ...

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

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 on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader ...