Friedrich Merz is on track to be the next chancellor though his country’s traditional political stability has vanished.

Germans voted for change Sunday, and the most important questions now facing their country—and Europe—are whether and how ...

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

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 ...

French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Trump on Monday — the third anniversary of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, a ...

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 ...

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

AfD leader Alice Weidel celebrated her party's historic performance in Germany's latest national election, with exit polls ...

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, ...