Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, crumbling ...

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

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory ...

Germany's likely next Chancellor Friedrich Merz questioned on Sunday whether NATO would remain in its "current form" by June ...

Friedrich Merz is on the brink of achieving a long-held goal of becoming Germany's next chancellor after initial results ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the likely front-runner to become the next chancellor, cast his ballot in the country's early elections in his hometown in the rural western Hochsauerland ...