Analysts say Friedrich Merz will have one shot at fending off ascending populists and an increasingly hostile U.S.

Both the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland and the far-left Die Linke saw significant gains and were the most popular ...

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

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

Ms Merkel moved to consolidate her grip on Germany’s centre-right after the Union narrowly lost a national election in 2002. She pushed Mr Merz aside as leader of its parliamentary group, taking the ...

European stocks were mostly rising on Monday, with the DAX leading gains after conservative Friedrich Merz won the German federal election. The Christian Democratic Union emerged from Sunday's ...

The conservative CDU/CSU won, and the chancellor's Social Democrats were voted out in a disastrous result for the party. One ...

The leader of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, Josef Schuster, expressed his shock, telling the Welt newspaper: “Although ...

Kyiv Post speaks with Germany’s CDU/CSU foreign policy spokesman on how the “epochal rupture” in the transatlantic ...

With Germany's election results in, Friedrich Merz emerges as a key figure who has promised to reshape Europe-US relations ...