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

With all votes counted, the centre-right Christian Democratic Union has claimed victory, while minnows, including the ...

The final results spare the CDU from having to negotiate a three-party coalition with the Greens to leave out the far-right ...

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

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

The 69-year-old head of the centre-right Union bloc, which won the country's national election with 28.6 per cent of the ...

Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option ...

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 ...

Friedrich Merz is Europe's last hope, provided that he goes beyond the caricature of the chancellor created under the ...

Friedrich Merz led the party to a 28.6% share of the vote. The far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party came second with ...

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Germany's centre-right Christian Democratic Union is set to take the reins of power in Berlin after placing first in snap ...