Friedrich Merz, the leader of the CDU party which won the German parliamentary elections despite the strong rise of the far ...

A long-time rival of centrist ex-chancellor Angela Merkel within the CDU party, Merz has attacked her open-door migrant policy and drawn her ire for accepting support from the far-right AfD on the ...

Conservatives expected to have tough coalition talks after the far-right AfD surged to become Germany’s second-largest party.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats after what he called “a bitter election result.” ...

Germany's election reshapes the political scene, with the far right and far left parties on the rise and coalition chaos and ...

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and its sister party, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), have won the ...

BERLIN - The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Germany's Left party jointly secured one third of seats in the new parliament that is required to block changes to the constitution, including ...

The euro jumped to a one-month high and stock futures charged ahead on Monday after Germany's conservatives won the national ...

Weidel said voters had delivered a “clear majority” for a coalition with the AfD, which came second, and the winning ...