Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz is poised to become Germany’s next chancellor based on preliminary ...

Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has congratulated Friedrich Merz, the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social ...

The conservative CDU/CSU won; the chancellor's Social Democrats were voted out in a disastrous result for the party. One in ...

"It is clear that this [the U.S.] government does not care much about the fate of Europe," says Friedrich Merz, who is set to ...

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

Germany now faces weeks to months of negotiations as the conservatives, under presumptive Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz, ...

World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his ...

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

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

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 ...

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