The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have emerged victorious in Germany’s snap parliamentary elections, dealing a significant blow to ...

Put simply, more than four in every five of Germany's 59.2 million voters turned out. It reflects just how energised Germans ...

Friedrich Merz and his party, the CDU/CSU, are on the cusp of entering office and will face tough decisions ahead on how to ...

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

The centre-right party's leader Friedrich Merz said CDU and SPD are to enter talks to form a coalition, one day after the ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

After a close-run election, a new German parliament is coming together. Our columnist Brian Melican shares who the vote ...

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 conservative CDU/CSU won, and the chancellor's Social Democrats were voted out in a disastrous result for the party. One in five Germans voted for the far right. What does this mean for Germany?

The left-wing conservative BSW party fell just short of the 5% threshold to enter the Bundestag with a nail-biting share of 4 ...

BERLIN – Germany’s centre-right won a clear victory in Sunday’s national election, heralding a major political shift in Europe’s largest country and clearing the way for Friedrich Merz, leader of the ...