Opposition leader Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) claimed victory. while Chancellor Olaf ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

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

German government coalition talks between CDU and SPD to begin, Merz says The centre-right party's leader Friedrich Merz said ...

Germany’s conservative election winner Friedrich Merz said yesterday that the surge of the far-right AfD to 20 percent voter support was “the last warning” to the country’s mainstream parties.

An astounding map that has emerged from Germany’s general election has shown just how divided the nation at the heart of Europe is.

Friedrich Merz, set to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor following the country’s election, has vowed to prioritize European unity and security amid the challenges posed by a new Trump ...

New data from Germany's national election highlights a significant political divide as the far-right gains ground in the east ...

Elon Musk endorsed AfD, an anti-immigration party that just won the most support of any far-right party since World War II.

The American message in Munich a week ago made German-US relations an unexpectedly divisive German election issue. Germans ...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk speaks live via a video transmission during the election campaign launch rally of the far-right Alternative for Germany party on January 25, 2025, in Halle, Germany. In the ...