CDU has limited options for forming government by shutting out second-place Alternative for Germany
The CDU/CSU won the German elections on Sunday but have limited options to form a government after taking first place in the ...
Merz claims win for German conservatives as far right surges to strongest postwar election result
Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is set to return to power with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...
Germany’s Merz claims victory for his conservatives as exit polls put far right on strong showing
The center-right opposition is favored to win, while polls point to the strongest result for a far-right party since World ...
Germany Election Result Explained: Shock For Scholz; Merz Presumptive Chancellor; AfD's Big Gains
Germany’s election results send shockwaves across Europe. Friedrich Merz’s CDU-CSU alliance secured a dominant victory, while ...
Meet Friedrich Merz, the trained pilot who will take the controls of Germany
Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the strong favourite to be the next chancellor of the European giant, replacing ...
Voting begins in high-stakes German election watched closely by Europe and US
Germans are going to the polls after an intense election campaign dominated by their country's faltering economy and a ...
Meet the man poised to be Germany’s next chancellor
Friedrich Merz, the man favored by early exit polls to be Germany’s next chancellor after elections Sunday, was forced out of government years ago in a power struggle with Angela Merkel. The leader of ...
Cometh the hour, cometh eventually Friedrich Merz
After a bruising campaign, where the mainstream parties often focused their fire on each other, Merz must now show he can be conciliatory, which is not an obvious trait. Although the CDU was the clear ...