Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany's next chancellor, as exit polls show his centre-right grouping has won the general election. The far-right AfD appears to have come second.

The Christian Democratic Union and its allied Christian Social Union secured the largest share of votes in the German federal ...

The vote comes at a pivotal time for Europe, which faces an increasingly assertive Trump administration.

BERLIN, February 24. /TASS/. Chairman of Germany’s Free Democratic Party (FDP) and ex-finance minister Christian Lindner said he would retire from politics after the party’s failure at the snap ...

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

Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats after what he called "a bitter election result." ...

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

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

In a blow to the Albanese government, the latest polling has the two-party preferred gap widening, and Labor headed for ...

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

In Germany, voters went to the polls on Sunday in a national election that saw a surge in support for the far-right AfD party ...