Friedrich Merz, the presumptive chancellor of Germany, has confirmed he will seek a coalition with the social democratic SPD ...

Germany's 2025 election results show a CDU/CSU victory, a Merz chancellorship, AfD's surge, SPD decline, and shifting political dynamics with major European impact.

In Germany, Friedrich Merz is set to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party placed first in Sunday’s election. Merz said Germany and Europe must achieve independence from ...

Friedrich Merz has led the Christian Democrats to victory in Germany's election. The 69-year-old politician will now enter ...

Germany's conservatives won the country's snap elections, but many in the party are disappointed at its overall showing. The ...

Just 34 per cent of under 25s voted for the CDU/CSU or the AfD, compared to 52 per cent of over 60s. Meanwhile, 47 per cent ...

The coalition’s economic measures and the prospect of an increase in the defence budgets of European states to around 3% of ...

Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc won 28.6% of the votes, followed by 20.8% for the far-right Alternative for Germany, according to the ...

After far-right party AfD came second in the German elections; here's what we know about its leader Alice Weidel, and her girlfriend.

An alliance between Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the center-left SPD is the only viable path to form a new government ...

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

BERLIN – Germany’s conservative election winner Friedrich Merz vowed to get to work Monday on the arduous task of building a ...