Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader ...

Exit polls in Germany show that the country's conservative union of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union ...

Merz has warned against more paralysis in Berlin at a time US President Donald Trump is driving head-spinning change, the ...

Friedrich Merz, likely Germany's next chancellor, said he was under "no illusions" about the White House's impact on ...

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

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

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

Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after exit polls showed his opposition conservatives were on track to win Sunday ...

European stocks were mostly rising on Monday, with the DAX leading gains after conservative Friedrich Merz won the German federal election. The Christian Democratic Union emerged from Sunday's ...

Global equity markets fell while gold prices surged on Thursday, with traders marking one month since U.S. President Donald ...