Mr Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU alliance won around 28% of the vote, while the Alternative for Germany roughly doubled its score.

Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany's chancellor after a historic election, aims to secure European independence from the U.S. amid complex coalition negotiations. Despite rising far-right ...

BERLIN >> Germany’s conservatives won the national election on Sunday but a fractured vote handed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) its best ever result in second place and left conservative ...

Whether he can form a strong coalition remains to be seen, but whatever he does will be an essential part of Europe’s ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz's conservatives were on course for a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday ...

For the first time since the Second World War, a far-right party has come second in a German national election, a result that ...

Voters give the center-right a chance to govern, but the AfD lurks to take advantage of failure.

Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...

The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream.

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won Germany's national election. The far-right Alternative for Germany ...