Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

Merz’s priority will be to form a government with the third-placed Social Democrats (SPD), led by Germany’s current ...

Germany once again has the luxury of forming a government from the political centre without major obstacles. Read more at ...

Polling stations opened at 8am (7am GMT) with more than 59 million Germans eligible to vote and first estimates based on exit ...

After winning the German election, the conservative leader must navigate a new era without Washington as a close ally.

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

BERLIN: Germans went to the polls on Sunday (Feb 23) in a pivotal election, with the conservatives the strong favourites ...

Vice President JD Vance’s speech Feb. 14 at the Munich Security Conference was not merely the most important speech the precocious young second-in-command has delivered in his political career. It was ...

Germany's conservatives swept to victory in Sunday's elections, with their leader Friedrich Merz set to become the next ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Alternative for Germany (AfD), which garnered 20.8% of the vote, is now the country's second strongest political force. The ...