The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have emerged victorious in Germany’s snap parliamentary elections, dealing a significant blow to ...

The American message in Munich a week ago made German-US relations an unexpectedly divisive German election issue. Germans ...

Germany's 'debt brake' debate set to shape coalition talks Friedrich Merz and the CDU, the winners of yesterday's German federal election, are attempting to quickly assemble a governing coalition ...

The centre-right party's leader Friedrich Merz said CDU and SPD are to enter talks to form a coalition, one day after the ...

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

Friedrich Merz and his party, the CDU/CSU, are on the cusp of entering office and will face tough decisions ahead on how to ...

The conservative CDU/CSU won, and the chancellor's Social Democrats were voted out in a disastrous result for the party. One in five Germans voted for the far right. What does this mean for Germany?

Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election while a ...

The Left won 8.8 percent of the vote, nearly doubling its share from the last election. It performed especially well in the ...

Wolfgang Merkel, a political analyst from the WBZ Berlin Social Science Center, says there will high pressure on Friedrich ...

Germany's election delivered a fragmented result, with CDU/CSU winning 28.5% but needing SPD to form a ‘Grand Coalition.’ ...

The final results spare the CDU from having to negotiate a three-party coalition with the Greens to leave out the far-right ...