Hendrik Wüst, the 50-year-old premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, is frequently cited — ...

What many in Germany's CDU feared following Sunday's election debacle in the state of Saxony-Anhalt now appears to be coming ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives are facing a "battle for survival," the party's lead candidate in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern said on Friday, days before the election in the north-eastern state.

Germany's far-right AfD is leading in polls ahead of regional elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on September 20, ...

• Friedrich Merz is likely to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party topped the vote in elections, exit polls project. The stuttering economy and immigration were major ...

BERLIN — A conservative backlash is brewing in Germany, but the likely winners are working to make the transition palatable for all citizens. The Union parties — the Christian Democratic Union and its ...

Germany’s previous coalition government could not agree on necessary measures to achieve the binding national 2030 climate targets and a number of political issues were left unresolved. But in the ...

CDU politician and German MP Günter Krings calls the Saxony-Anhalt election results “devastating”, saying the situation is “even worse than expected” after the far-right AfD won 43.8% of the vote. Vie ...