Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, has said "from tomorrow we start working" on forming a government as the far-right AfD won its best-ever results.

The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the ...

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

Friedrich Merz, chairman of Germany's Christian Democratic Union, takes a ballot at a polling station in Arnsberg, Germany, Feb. 23, 2025. German voters went to polls Sunday to decide the composition ...

US president Donald Trump has hailed Sunday as a "great day for Germany" after an election in which conservative opposition ...

Friedrich Merz faces complex coalition negotiations after the far-right AfD surged to a historic second place in a fractured ...

EVEN AS COUNTING continues in Germany’s election, three things are clear. The first is that the opposition conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), along with their Bavarian sister party, the Christian ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, ...

Merz declared victory on Sunday afternoon after his Christian Democratic Union party was projected to win approximately 30% of the vote.

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory.

The Christian Democrat, who appeared to have a path to a stable governing coalition, hopes to lead Europe’s response to ...

Whether he can form a strong coalition remains to be seen, but whatever he does will be an essential part of Europe’s ...