After Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won a plurality of seats in federal elections Sunday, party ...

Merz’s priority will be to form a government with the third-placed Social Democrats (SPD), led by Germany’s current ...

Elon Musk endorsed AfD, an anti-immigration party that just won the most support of any far-right party since World War II.

Decades after the unification of Germany, the rise of extremist parties has divided the country once again, leaving the ...

Based on more than a dozen interviews in the final weeks of the German election campaign, POLITICO tells the story of how ...

Friedrich Merz, who is set to become the new German chancellor, has vowed to prioritise European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and Russia’s war on ...

The 69-year-old CDU candidate is set to become chancellor at a time when Germany is going through a deep economic, security ...

Germany's conservatives swept to victory in Sunday's elections, with their leader Friedrich Merz set to become the next ...