Hailing from Sauerland, a traditionally Catholic and socially conservative region in western Germany, Friedrich Merz has long ...

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

The result sprung surprises for the parties as far-right AfD achieved its best ever performance while Chancellor Olaf ...

Outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the results “bitter” for his center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), which suffered ...

Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc won 28.6% of the votes, followed by 20.8% for the far-right Alternative for Germany, according to the ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) conceded defeat following a “bitter election result,” as ...

US President Donald Trump congratulated Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz on his party's win in parliamentary ...

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

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s conservative opposition, achieved a modest victory in the national election. The ...

The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) won the second-largest share of the votes in the German election, it's the ...