“This really is democracy’s last bullet,” said CSU leader Markus Söder. While he was referring to the threat from the far ...

While the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) — the party of Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel — has for decades steadfastly refused to cooperate or do deals with politicians on the extremes, that ...

Last January Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were ahead in the German opinion polls by fifteen points. She was stepping down after sixteen years as chancellor (prime minister), but she ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader, Angela Merkel ...

In the two months since the election, Merz's CDU/CSU bloc has lost four points while the AfD has been rising in opinion polls: Both now stand at 24%. Compared with former Chancellor Angela Merkel ...

Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said on ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany's next chancellor. Friedrich Merz, chairman of the conservative Christian Democratic ...

After weeks of negotiations, the conservative CDU/CSU bloc and center-left SPD presented a coalition deal to form a new government. Talks took on a sense of urgency amid a host of global and domestic ...

The CDU won 28.5% of the vote in Germany's February ... of migrants seeking asylum in Germany under former Chancellor Angela Merkel. SPD cco-leader Lars Klingbeil could become Germany's next ...

With liberalism, freedom and democracy under threat globally, it's a time for 'giants' – but this is a 'coalition of the ...