German conservatives under likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed on Monday to move quickly to try to form a coalition ...

Germany's mainstream conservatives won the country's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation’s ...

After two torturous months of campaigning, the wait is over. Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative CDU party, is on ...

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

Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option ...

Friedrich Merz led the party to a 28.6% share of the vote. The far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party came second with ...

As was widely predicted, Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has won Germany’s federal elections with around 28 ...

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

The 69-year-old head of the centre-right Union bloc, which won the country's national election with 28.6 per cent of the ...

Friedrich Merz is Europe's last hope, provided that he goes beyond the caricature of the chancellor created under the ...

A long-time rival of centrist ex-chancellor Angela Merkel within the CDU party, Merz has attacked her open-door migrant policy and drawn her ire for accepting support from the far-right AfD on the ...