Germany has voted — and the exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz and his Conservative Party on course for a ...

Whether he can form a strong coalition remains to be seen, but whatever he does will be an essential part of Europe’s ...

The biggest losers of these elections are the Social Democrats and the Free Democrats, who were part of the previous ...

For the first time since the Second World War, a far-right party has come second in a German national election, a result that ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz pledged to help Europe achieve "real independence from the US" on defence in stark ...

Merz declared victory on Sunday afternoon after his Christian Democratic Union party was projected to win approximately 30% of the vote.

Voters give the center-right a chance to govern, but the AfD lurks to take advantage of failure.

Germany's Ifo business climate index on Monday could confirm the optimism in the latest ZEW sentiment index. The breakdown of fourth-quarter German GDP on Tuesday will provide insight into the strong ...

WASHINGTON, February 23. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump has congratulated Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) bloc, which is winning the snap election ...

President Donald Trump celebrated the success of the German conservative parties in an all-caps post on Truth Social ...

Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...

The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream.