Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz calls for European 'independence from US' as he blasts Musk and Trump - ...

Friedrich Merz, the presumptive chancellor of Germany, has confirmed he will seek a coalition with the social democratic SPD ...

Germany's 2025 election results show a CDU/CSU victory, a Merz chancellorship, AfD's surge, SPD decline, and shifting political dynamics with major European impact.

Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU bloc has won the national election and now faces coalition talks. Merz seemed keen to get to work ...

Germany's conservatives won the country's snap elections, but many in the party are disappointed at its overall showing. The ...

Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc won 28.6% of the votes, followed by 20.8% for the far-right Alternative for Germany, according to the ...

The coalition’s economic measures and the prospect of an increase in the defence budgets of European states to around 3% of ...

After far-right party AfD came second in the German elections; here's what we know about its leader Alice Weidel, and her girlfriend.

After a humbling election defeat for Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democrats (SPD), the party looked to collect ...