Polls are open across Germany as the world’s third largest economy chooses a new leader to guide it through an era of febrile ...

The Christian Democratic Union and its allied Christian Social Union secured the largest share of votes in the German federal ...

Friedrich Merz from the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is on track to be Germany’s next chancellor.

The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leads the polls with an estimated 29% of the vote, going by the exit polls, ...

Germany's opposition conservatives emerged victorious in the national election, making Friedrich Merz a likely candidate for ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

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

German chancellor candidates have spoken publicly to their supporters after exit polls came out indicating the results of the ...

Centre-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc emerged as the frontrunner in Germany’s national election ...

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

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats after what he called 'a bitter election ...

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