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

Germans voted for change Sunday, and the most important questions now facing their country—and Europe—are whether and how ...

BERLIN — Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won an unexciting victory in a national election Sunday, ...

The far-right AfD and the Left jointly secured the one third of seats needed to block constitutional changes. Both oppose ...

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

Exit poll results suggest vast gains for the far-right AfD party and a sizeable shift in the fortunes of Germany’s two ...

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

With Germany's election results in, Friedrich Merz emerges as a key figure who has promised to reshape Europe-US relations ...

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

French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Trump on Monday — the third anniversary of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, a ...

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

Projections show German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in Sunday's national ...