A long-time rival of centrist ex-chancellor Angela Merkel within the CDU party, Merz has attacked her open-door migrant policy and drawn her ire for accepting support from the far-right AfD on the ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz will start trying to form a coalition government on Monday after his ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives were on course for a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while Alternative for Germany nearly doubled its support, the strongest ...

Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the country's second-largest party. That's according to provisional results ...

German conservatives under likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed on Monday to move quickly to try to form a coalition ...

A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition government will have ...

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

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

Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a ...

The centre-right CDU has emerged as the biggest party in the German election, making Merz the most likely to lead a ...

For the first time since WWII, Germanys far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has secured second place in a national ...