After two torturous months of campaigning, the wait is over. Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative CDU party, is on ...

Friedrich Merz has emerged victorious in a general election which saw dramatic changes in German politics - but given that ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, has said "from tomorrow we start working" on forming a government as ...

Friedrich Merz will be the next chancellor of Germany. And he still can’t tell what his government program will be. His ...

Initial projections of the result of Germany’s election on Sunday set the stage for protracted coalition talks, meaning Europe’s largest economy could face months of policy uncertainty prolonging its ...

With all constituencies counted, the centre-right Christian Democratic Union has claimed victory, while minnows, including ...

Germany is holding a federal election on February 23 – a snap vote called by chancellor Olaf Scholz when his coalition government fell apart at the end of last ...

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

German Christian Democrats secure potential parliamentary majority through possible coalition with Social Democrats, ...

Germany's conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany came in second, its ...

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

Germany's conservative election winner Friedrich Merz faced an uphill struggle to build a coalition government on Monday, a ...