Analysts say Friedrich Merz will have one shot at fending off ascending populists and an increasingly hostile U.S.

With all constituencies counted, the centre-right Christian Democratic Union has claimed victory, while minnows, including ...

Germany's conservative election winner Friedrich Merz faced an uphill struggle to build a coalition government on Monday, a ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

Ms Merkel moved to consolidate her grip on Germany’s centre-right after the Union narrowly lost a national election in 2002. She pushed Mr Merz aside as leader of its parliamentary group, taking the ...

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

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

Friedrich Merz led the party to a 28.6% share of the vote. The far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party came second with ...

European stocks were mostly rising on Monday, with the DAX leading gains after conservative Friedrich Merz won the German federal election. The Christian Democratic Union emerged from Sunday's ...

The leader of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, Josef Schuster, expressed his shock, telling the Welt newspaper: “Although ...

BERLIN - German conservatives under Friedrich Merz vowed on Monday to quickly form a government after winning a national ...