Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory, while Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded his center-left Social ...

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is poised to win the German election, with Friedrich Merz set to become the new ...

The scale of the challenge is indeed daunting. Russia’s economy is on a war footing, its army is battle-hardened and it has a huge stockpile of nuclear weapons. Even though Europe’s economy dwarfs ...

Merz's Conservative alliance secured the highest votes in a high-stakes German elections held on Sunday, bringing him into ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday said he may be forced to sign an economic agreement with the United States ...

Friedrich Merz leads CDU/CSU to victory in German election, while AfD doubles support; Merz vows to fight bureaucracy.

A far-right party has come second in a German national election for the first time since the Second World War.

The euro opened higher on Monday while stock futures were volatile as Germany's conservatives won the national election as ...

Friedrich Merz is likely to replace Olaf Scholz as the next German Chancellor. Merz has promised to crack down on illegal ...

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Three years since the war began, Russia is weakened, Ukraine is devastated, but a resolution is in sight. Donald Trump has ...