Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

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

A reform of Germany's constitutionally enshrined debt brake, which limits public borrowing, would be discussed by the leaders ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

The first of the four so-called Grand Coalitions, which was led by CDU leader Kurt Georg Kiesinger, weighed 90 per cent in the Bundestag in 1966. Angela Merkel’s first of three governments with the ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will be succeeded by conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz after his party, the ...

Financial markets rose on the likelihood of a two-party coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD, with Germany's benchmark ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz concedes defeat as CDU/CSU wins Germany's election, with AfD achieving historic second place. Key ...

With 16.4% of the vote, down nine points from 2021, the SPD recorded its worst score since the post-war period. It is likely ...

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

Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while ...