Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won an unexciting victory in a national election Sunday, while ...

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

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

It is clear that this [the U.S.] government does not care much about the fate of Europe,” says Friedrich Merz, who is set to ...

Merz stated that Germany could not accept Arab refugees from Gaza, saying, "We have enough antisemitic young men in this country." ...

The leader of the conservative Christian Democrats celebrated as exit polls indicated they had won Sunday’s election, which ...

An existential week is ahead for Ukraine and the West. The leaders of Europe’s two nuclear powers are rushing to the White House to try to reclaim a central role for themselves and for Ukraine after t ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU won Germany's elections with 28.6 percent, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) recorded ...

Projections show German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in Sunday's national ...

Germany’s conservative bloc, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have emerged as the biggest winners in the German federal election, ...