Merz has warned against more paralysis in Berlin at a time US President Donald Trump is driving head-spinning change, the ...

Friedrich Merz, chairman of Germany's Christian Democratic Union, takes a ballot at a polling station in Arnsberg, Germany, Feb. 23, 2025. German voters went to polls Sunday to decide the composition ...

Friedrich Merz faces complex coalition negotiations after the far-right AfD surged to a historic second place in a fractured ...

EVEN AS COUNTING continues in Germany’s election, three things are clear. The first is that the opposition conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), along with their Bavarian sister party, the Christian ...

The Christian Democratic Union has won a plurality in the Bundestag, preliminary exit polls suggested Sunday, while the ...

Merz declared victory on Sunday afternoon after his Christian Democratic Union party was projected to win approximately 30% of the vote.

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory.

The Christian Democrat, who appeared to have a path to a stable governing coalition, hopes to lead Europe’s response to ...

Whether he can form a strong coalition remains to be seen, but whatever he does will be an essential part of Europe’s ...

President Donald Trump celebrated the success of the German conservative parties in an all-caps post on Truth Social ...

Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...

German voters are heading to the polls Sunday for a national election. The race pits the incumbent chancellor against the ...