Skip next section Scholz won't bring Merz to key EU summit next month February 26, 2025 Scholz won't bring Merz to key EU summit next month German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the country's ...

CDU and AfD voters delivered a sharp rebuke to Berlin’s left-wing ruling coalition of Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens. Both ...

CDU celebrations are muted because a 28.52pc vote share means a weaker negotiating position in coalition with the centre-Left ...

The conservative CDU led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's 2025 election. With vote counting finished, preliminary results show ...

Merz has four to five years not just to breathe new life into his party, but to ensure the country’s traditional political ...

Many challenges lie ahead for Germany's new coalition government with the country in a state of flux, facing mounting ...

Germany's conservative chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Wednesday drew a chorus of criticism, including from his ...

The party’s continued surge in the recent German election proves that the far-right is a real threat that’s not going away, ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and soon to be chancellor of Germany, announced ...

In the recent federal elections the far-right AfD was able to reach sections of the working class on issues over which the ...

Friedrich Merz and the CDU's victory in the German election present a shift in Germany's foreign policy, with an emphasis on ...

Although securing the second-best election result in its party history, the Greens will now become part of Germany's ...