Friedrich Merz, set to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor following the country’s election, has vowed to prioritize European unity and security amid the challenges posed by a new Trump ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) claimed victory. while Chancellor Olaf ...

Officials from Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats and the SPD are discussing ways to free up resources to beef up the ...

Germany’s conservative election winner Friedrich Merz said yesterday that the surge of the far-right AfD to 20 percent voter support was “the last warning” to the country’s mainstream parties.

Friedrich Merz’s mainstream Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

The American message in Munich a week ago made German-US relations an unexpectedly divisive German election issue. Germans ...

The likely next chancellor will face obstruction from the far left and far right, Desmond Lachman writes in a guest ...

An astounding map that has emerged from Germany’s general election has shown just how divided the nation at the heart of Europe is.

Yes, Merz will, in all likelihood, become Germany’s next chancellor. But let’s be honest: winning an election for the main opposition party has never been easier.

The new government must "focus on getting the economy out of its structural stagnation...if the main motivation of such a ...

The leader of the party said she received the call after the party known as the AfD finished second in national elections, by ...