The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is poised to win the German election, with Friedrich Merz set to become the new ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz's conservatives were on course for a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday ...

The scale of the challenge is indeed daunting. Russia’s economy is on a war footing, its army is battle-hardened and it has a huge stockpile of nuclear weapons. Even though Europe’s economy dwarfs ...

Friedrich Merz leads CDU/CSU to victory in German election, while AfD doubles support; Merz vows to fight bureaucracy.

Merz's Conservative alliance secured the highest votes in a high-stakes German elections held on Sunday, bringing him into ...

A far-right party has come second in a German national election for the first time since the Second World War.

The euro opened higher on Monday while stock futures were volatile as Germany's conservatives won the national election as ...

Friedrich Merz is likely to replace Olaf Scholz as the next German Chancellor. Merz has promised to crack down on illegal ...

Most election candidates agreed Europe's top economy must rebuild its creaking infrastructure, speed up a halting digitalisation drive and slash red tape. The parties made competing campaign proposals ...