The first of the four so-called Grand Coalitions, which was led by CDU leader Kurt Georg Kiesinger, weighed 90 per cent in the Bundestag in 1966. Angela Merkel’s first of three governments with the ...

A long election night in Germany has ended with five parties entering the next parliament and the conservative alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social ...

Notably, the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 19.5 percent votes. Its leader Alice Weidel expressed her ...

"China is glad to see Germany and the European Union play an important role in global affairs. It supports the integration of ...

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Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s next chancellor, but he has a long road ahead of him to form government and hold onto power.

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

Germany's centre-right Christian Democratic Union is set to take the reins of power in Berlin after placing first in snap ...

THE last time Germany held a snap national election, in 2005, there was a change of power from left-of-centre to ...

AfD saw the biggest victory of a far right party since WWII as Social Democrats suffered their largest postwar defeat.

The Left won 8.8 percent of the vote, nearly doubling its share from the last election. It performed especially well in the ...

However, owing to a constitutional amendment brought in by a previous coalition government, public spending in Germany is ...