Friedrich Merz wasted no time in heralding a new era for Europe, and one without the US as a key partner, writes Europe ...

Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a ...

Germany’s conservatives secured a decisive victory in Sunday’s elections, positioning their leader Friedrich Merz as the next ...

Voters turned out in record numbers for the German election. Here’s a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats in ...

Friedrich Merz was set to become Germany’s new chancellor after provisional results confirmed his mainstream Conservatives ...

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

The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leads the polls with an estimated 29% of the vote, going by the exit polls, ...

Centre-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc emerged as the frontrunner in Germany’s national election ...

For the first time since the Second World War, a far-right party has come second in a German national election, a result that ...

Merz had signalled openness to reforming Germany’s “debt brake” to finance badly needed infrastructure investments and a ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives were on course for a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday ...

The centre-right CDU has emerged as the biggest party in the German election, making Merz the most likely to lead a ...