The CDU/CSU won the German elections on Sunday but have limited options to form a government after taking first place in the ...

With 28.5% of the vote, conservative party CDU leader Friedrich Merz is set on the path to becoming the next chancellor.

Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

The votes were still being counted Sunday but the results were clear: Germany’s conservative Friedrich Merz is the new ...

Germany's conservative election winner Friedrich Merz vowed to get to work Monday on the arduous task of building a new ...

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 ...

Germany’s conservative bloc, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have emerged as the biggest winners in the German federal election, ...

Friedrich Merz, set to become Germany's next chancellor after his opposition conservatives won the national election on ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory, while Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded his center-left Social ...