World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his ...

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, has vowed to bring stronger leadership in Europe at a ...

Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces ...

A marked moment of political severance came at the end of January, when Friedrich Merz pushed through a non-binding motion on ...

The 69-year-old will be the oldest chancellor since Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of the new Federal Republic of ...

The centre-right CDU has emerged as the biggest party in the German election, making Merz the most likely to lead a ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has triumphed at Germany’s ballot boxes, paving his way to become the next chancellor. His ...

Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) won the second-largest share of the votes in the German election, it's the ...

Friedrich Merz’s party has won the most seats in Germany’s election. But after ridiculing the left and embracing far right ...