Friedrich Merz is on track to be the next chancellor though his country’s traditional political stability has vanished.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

European markets are expected to open in broadly higher territory Monday as traders react to the results of the German ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU won Germany's elections with 28.6 percent, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) recorded ...

Germany’s conservative bloc, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union ...

The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...

German chancellor candidates have spoken publicly to their supporters after exit polls came out indicating the results of the ...

AfD leader Alice Weidel celebrated her party's historic performance in Germany's latest national election, with exit polls ...

In spite of the Tesla CEO's best efforts, the AfD performed no better than had been expected when snap elections were called.