Friedrich Merz, the presumptive chancellor of Germany, has confirmed he will seek a coalition with the social democratic SPD ...

Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc won 28.6% of the votes, followed by 20.8% for the far-right Alternative for Germany, according to the ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU bloc has won the national election and now faces coalition talks. Merz seemed keen to get to work ...

Germany's 2025 election results show a CDU/CSU victory, a Merz chancellorship, AfD's surge, SPD decline, and shifting political dynamics with major European impact.

The coalition’s economic measures and the prospect of an increase in the defence budgets of European states to around 3% of ...

Germany's conservatives won the country's snap elections, but many in the party are disappointed at its overall showing. The ...

After a humbling election defeat for Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democrats (SPD), the party looked to collect ...

The German federal election held on Sunday resulted in a victory for the conservative CDU/CSU alliance led by Friedrich Merz, ...

After far-right party AfD came second in the German elections; here's what we know about its leader Alice Weidel, and her girlfriend.