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

Conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while the far-right ...

"Germany will once more be governed reliably," he told supporters on Sunday evening.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The results spell an ...

The CDU leader questioned whether Nato would remain in its ‘current form’ by June as he hit out at Donald Trump ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany's next chancellor, as exit polls show his centre-right grouping has won the general election. The far-right AfD appears to have come second.

Germany is at a crossroads and now for Friedrich Merz the hard work begins, writes Berlin correspondent Jessica Parker.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat as his centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) faced their worst postwar election result, receiving just over 16% of the vote.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has acknowledged his party’s heavy loss in the national elections held on Sunday, February 23.

Germans voted for a change of leadership Sunday, handing the most votes in a parliamentary election to centrist conservatives, with the far right in second, and rebuking the nation's left-leaning ...

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is set to return to power, with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...