Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s conservative opposition, achieved a modest victory in the national election. The ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s center-right Christian Democrats, who finished first in Sunday’s election, has vowed ...

Struggling a month ago, the far-left Die Linke party surged into Parliament by riding a backlash against conservative immigration policy.

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

Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

BERLIN — Germany’s conservatives won the national election on Sunday but a fractured vote handed the far-right Alternative ...

Both the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland and the far-left Die Linke saw significant gains and were the most popular ...

A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition government will have ...

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 ...

A coalition dubbed by pundits as the “Kenya coalition” features the CDU/CSU whose colors are black, SPD (red) and the Greens, ...

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 ...