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

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

Conservatives expected to have tough coalition talks after the far-right AfD surged to become Germany’s second-largest party.

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

We look forward to continuing our joint work with Germany to protect lives, bring real peace closer to Ukraine, and ...

European shares were largely unchanged on Monday, while Germany's benchmark index rose as investors greeted the widely expected victory of Friedrich Merz-led opposition conservatives at the national ...

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 ...

World War II Germany's 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader. The 69-year-old head of the center-right Union bloc, which ...

BERLIN - The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Germany's Left party jointly secured one third of seats in the new parliament that is required to block changes to the constitution, including ...

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

Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq futures are rising in premarket trading Monday as the stock market looks ahead to Nvidia earnings and more inflation data this week.