Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

A reform of Germany's constitutionally enshrined debt brake, which limits public borrowing, would be discussed by the leaders ...

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

The German chancellor, who defied calls to step aside after his government fell apart, is down in the polls but insisting he ...

Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, crumbling ...

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

With 16.4% of the vote, down nine points from 2021, the SPD recorded its worst score since the post-war period. It is likely ...

Despite falling more than 9 percentage points to 16.3% in Sunday’s election, the SPD will probably be tapped by-election ...

Incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz is working overtime to warn Germans that the time of stagnation that prevailed under the former chancellor Olaf Scholz must come to an end.