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

Put simply, more than four in every five of Germany's 59.2 million voters turned out. It reflects just how energised Germans ...

Incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz is working overtime to warn Germans that the time of stagnation that prevailed under the former chancellor Olaf Scholz must come to an end.

The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the election result a "decisive victory for our political family, for ...

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

Friedrich Merz, the presumptive chancellor of Germany, has confirmed he will seek a coalition with the social democratic SPD ...

Struggling a month ago, the far-left Die Linke party surged into Parliament by riding a backlash against conservative immigration policy.

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the centre-Right Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), has emerged as the winner of Germany’s ...

Germany’s businesses have been frustrated by government inaction on the stagnating economy. Sunday’s national election raises ...

Germany’s mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the country’s national election, ensuring that Ukraine has an ...

It is the closest thing to a referendum on mass migration, in a country where referendums are not condoned by the ...

The outcome in the German election could see a focus on defence integration in Europe, eschewing the United States.