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

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

While the far right made historic gains in Germany's elections on Sunday, Conservative politician Friedrich Merz won with ...

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

A reform of Germany's constitutionally enshrined debt brake, which limits public borrowing, would be discussed by the leaders ...

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 ...

Omar Alkadamani, a Syrian-born, naturalised German citizen, used to support Germany's centre-left Social Democrats. Unsettled ...

Friedrich Merz has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent's security as it grapples with the new Trump ...

However, owing to a constitutional amendment brought in by a previous coalition government, public spending in Germany is ...