Friedrich Merz and his party, the CDU/CSU, are on the cusp of entering office and will face tough decisions ahead on how to ...

Friedrich Merz, the presumptive chancellor of Germany, has confirmed he will seek a coalition with the social democratic SPD ...

The centre-right party's leader Friedrich Merz said CDU and SPD are to enter talks to form a coalition, one day after the German election on Sunday. #EuropeNews ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

After a close-run election, a new German parliament is coming together. Our columnist Brian Melican shares who the vote ...

Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election while a ...

The conservative CDU/CSU won, and the chancellor's Social Democrats were voted out in a disastrous result for the party. One in five Germans voted for the far right. What does this mean for Germany?

The Left won 8.8 percent of the vote, nearly doubling its share from the last election. It performed especially well in the ...

Put simply, more than four in every five of Germany's 59.2 million voters turned out. It reflects just how energised Germans ...

Wolfgang Merkel, a political analyst from the WBZ Berlin Social Science Center, says there will high pressure on Friedrich ...

The conservative CDU/CSU won, and the chancellor's Social Democrats were voted out in a disastrous result for the party. One ...

Here are the main takeaways of Germany’s legislative elections: The elections have highlighted the steady erosion in support for the so-called people’s parties — the CDU and the SPD — that have ...