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

Germany’s conservative alliance has emerged victorious in the national election, paving the way for Friedrich Merz to become ...

He has repeatedly pledged not to work with the far-right anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party despite their second-place finish.

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

While the far right made historic gains in Germany’s pivotal federal elections on Sunday, the conservative Christian ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s new chancellor after provisional results confirmed his mainstream conservatives had ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's mainstream conservatives, has said that Europe must become independent from the ...

The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the second largest party in parliament after Sunday's election, ...

Germany's mainstream conservatives have won the country's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...