The CDU/CSU was led to victory on Sunday by the towering Friedrich Merz, who has never served in the German government until ...

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 ...

Friedrich Merz, who is expected to be Germany’s next chancellor after his conservative CDU/CSU bloc won national elections, ...

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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.

Sunday’s federal elections in Germany were held at a time when Germany’s support for human rights both at home and on the ...

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

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

Germany now faces weeks to months of negotiations as the conservatives, under presumptive Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz, ...

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

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have emerged victorious in Germany’s snap parliamentary elections, dealing a significant blow to ...