German voters cast their ballots in Sunday’s election, with opposition leader Friedrich Merz claiming victory and Chancellor ...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz promised to “achieve independence” from the US after his centre-right bloc won federal elections, ...

Berlin — Germany’s conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz's conservatives have won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, ...

The conservative CDU/CSU party is set to be the largest party in the next German parliament with 28.5% of the vote, according to projections.

The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream.

Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces economic and diplomatic crises.

The racist, far-right, pro-Russia AfD— founded in 2013 as an anti-European Union party—is an outlier even among Europe’s nationalist parties. One senior leader has been twice convicted of using banned ...

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

The center-right Christian Democratic Union party is leading the elections in Germany, according to exit polls, with the ...