Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a ...

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

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

Christian Democrats won with their leader, Friedrich Merz, expected to be next chancellor of Germany. But the far right and ...

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

After securing the largest share in the German election, Conservative party leader Friedrich Merz has met French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. They discussed European security in the face of a ...

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

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

Despite a crushing election defeat, the leader of the Social Democrats is on track to become Germany’s second-in-command ...

If he wants an effective governing majority, Chancellor Friedrich Merz must invite the AfD into the government.

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

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