Germany faces its second change of leader in fewer than four years. The latest result cements a shift to the right in Europe.

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the centre-Right Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), has emerged as the winner of Germany’s elections. Mr Merz, 69, managed to fend off the far-Right by adopting a ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's opposition conservatives won a national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be the next chancellor while the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

The AfD looks set to take power in a German state for the first time. In a DW exclusive, the front-runner in Saxony-Anhalt ...

Why the German election represents a make-or-break moment for European cohesion ...

Germany's center-right alliance appears set to win the country's latest federal election, which comes at a critical moment for Europe's largest economy. The latest exit polls show the Christian ...

BERLIN — Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats started exploratory talks Friday on a possible coalition government, but were ...

Remter and James Mackenzie HALBERSTADT, Germany, May 20 (Reuters) - As German Chancellor Friedrich Merz struggles to halt a ...

In Germany’s national election on Sunday, center-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz claimed victory after exit polls showed his bloc in the lead. Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is heading for ...

After Germany's election "we know who the coalition is going to be based around from here, so I think the market is taking that as a huge positive," Michael Field, chief equity strategist at ...

As a new chapter in German politics begins on Monday following the federal election at the weekend, there's a distinct feeling of déjà vu in Berlin as a center-right alliance prepares to take the ...