German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lamented a "bitter" defeat after his centre-left Social Democrats slumped to a heavy loss in ...

The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) won the second-largest share of the votes in the German election, it's the ...

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, ...

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

Merz declared victory on Sunday afternoon after his Christian Democratic Union party was projected to win approximately 30% of the vote.

If the exit poll stands, the CDU will claim 28.8% of the vote in Sunday’s election, meaning Merz – an old-school conservative ...

Whether he can form a strong coalition remains to be seen, but whatever he does will be an essential part of Europe’s ...

President Donald Trump praised German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz's victory in the national election on ...