Germany's mainstream conservatives won the country's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation’s ...

German conservatives under likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed on Monday to move quickly to try to form a coalition ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU win in Germany's early election signaled a shift in the political landscape, as dissatisfaction with ...

Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option ...

The final results spare the CDU from having to negotiate a three-party coalition with the Greens to leave out the far-right ...

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

The 69-year-old head of the centre-right Union bloc, which won the country's national election with 28.6 per cent of the ...

Conservatives’ Friedrich Merz on track to be next chancellor while far-right AfD in second place, its best result, exit polls indicate.

A long-time rival of centrist ex-chancellor Angela Merkel within the CDU party, Merz has attacked her open-door migrant policy and drawn her ire for accepting support from the far-right AfD on the ...

Friedrich Merz is Europe's last hope, provided that he goes beyond the caricature of the chancellor created under the ...

Germany's centre-right Christian Democratic Union is set to take the reins of power in Berlin after placing first in snap ...