Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has opened talks with the Social Democrats over ways to quickly ramp up ...

Provisional results confirmed that the mainstream conservative party led by Friedrich Merz has won Germany’s national election.

Germans have given establishment parties one last chance. Right-wing populists wait on the sidelines. PARIS — The good news ...

The party led by Friedrich Merz won the country's national election; the primary voter issues were the economy and ...

The likely next chancellor is unpopular, and his country’s economy has stalled. But his penchant for risks could help lead to ...

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have emerged victorious in Germany’s snap parliamentary elections, dealing a significant blow to ...

Financial markets rose on the likelihood of a two-party coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD, with Germany's benchmark ...

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

Germany's incoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has said an "absolute priority" for him will be to distance Europe from the ...

The new government must "focus on getting the economy out of its structural stagnation...if the main motivation of such a ...

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

The German elections have taken place and the Bundestag is looking a lot more right-wing than it was this time yesterday. The ...