Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, ...

CDU celebrations are muted because a 28.52pc vote share means a weaker negotiating position in coalition with the centre-Left ...

Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made ...

Merz’s draft legislation, however, raised the ire of former Chancellor and CDU leader Angela Merkel, who intervened. Now retired from politics, Merkel is a scorched-earth, never-AfD hardliner ...

The victory in the general elections in Germany was expected to be won by the CDU/CSU bloc. He will be asked to form a new ...

When Angela Merkel rose to lead the CDU parliamentary group in 2002 and entered the Chancellery in 2005, the much more conservative-minded Merz withdrew and stayed away from politics for years.

He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and ...

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

The 69-year-old CDU candidate is set to become chancellor at a time when Germany is going through a deep economic, security ...

Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s next chancellor after early results show his conservative Christian Democratic ...

The 69-year-old will be the oldest chancellor since Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of the new Federal Republic of ...