Friedrich Merz is likely to replace Olaf Scholz as the next German Chancellor. Merz has promised to crack down on illegal ...

Germany’s conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while ...

Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now on course to win 20.5% of the vote, according to latest projections - but there is no ...

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory.

Millions voted for a new federal government after the country's three-party coalition fell apart at the end of last year.

Markus Söder, the leader of Bavaria's conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), remained opposed on Sunday to a national ...

If confirmed in the final count, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) roughly doubled its score to at least 19.5 percent, ...

A senior conservative lawmaker in Germany believes that the centre-right bloc, which clearly won Sunday's election according ...

The center-right opposition is favored to win, while polls point to the strongest result for a far-right party since World ...

CDU's Freiderich Merz, frontrunner for chancellor, has promised a ‘much tougher stance’ than the one Germany has been ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...