He has repeatedly pledged not to work with the far-right anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party despite their second-place finish.

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

(CNN) — Italian Air Force jets had to escort an American Airlines plane to Rome because of a security concern, which ultimately proved to be “non-credible.” The flight was on its way from New York to ...

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

U.S. flags hang on the building of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump won the ...

While the far right made historic gains in Germany’s pivotal federal elections on Sunday, the conservative Christian ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s new chancellor after provisional results confirmed his mainstream conservatives had ...

By Kirsti Knolle and Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) -German conservatives under Friedrich Merz vowed on Monday to quickly ...

Analysts say Friedrich Merz will have one shot at fending off ascending populists and an increasingly hostile U.S.

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's mainstream conservatives, has said that Europe must become independent from the ...