The outcome of the German election "has not resulted in a clear path to the constitution being changed to allow for a step ...

German politicians reacted on Monday to the preliminary results of the federal parliamentary elections, in which the ...

Following its election win, the CDU's parliamentary group is meeting after leader Friedrich Merz says he aiming for a ...

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Following rare back-to-back economic contractions in 2023 and 2024, German businesses are hopeful that a new government ...

The first of the four so-called Grand Coalitions, which was led by CDU leader Kurt Georg Kiesinger, weighed 90 per cent in the Bundestag in 1966. Angela Merkel’s first of three governments with the ...

A long election night in Germany has ended with five parties entering the next parliament and the conservative alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social ...

With Merz at the helm and the SPD’s Boris Pistorius likely gaining a seat at the table, Ukraine can expect a stronger ally in ...

Elon Musk congratulated the hard-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party yesterday and predicted it would win the next ...

The CDU/CSU was led to victory on Sunday by the towering Friedrich Merz, who has never served in the German government until ...

Threatened by far-right gains, Friedrich Merz faces tricky coalition talks as he tries to address anti-immigration sentiments while keeping potential left-wing government partners ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...