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 Social Democrats are under pressure to quickly revamp leadership as a role in a new government beckons, even though ...

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

German voters are heading to the polls for a national election. German voters are heading to the polls Sunday for a national ...

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

The ripple effect that Germany’s election could spell across Britain, the US and EU German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) after what he called ...

Scholz, the 66-year-old incumbent chancellor, is facing an uphill struggle for re-election as his Social Democratic Party ...

Merz, 69, has promised to provide greater leadership than Chancellor Olaf Scholz and to liaise more with key allies, restoring Germany to the heart of Europe. A brash economic liberal who has ...

As Sunday’s snap federal election nears, political parties are intensifying their efforts in the final stretch to drum up ...