Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

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

Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian CSU sister party won the election on Sunday and are ...

AfD's rise to become the second-largest party in Germany on Sunday's election is a boost to the country's conservative ...

Economically troubled Germany just held elections and will soon have a new government. The conservative Christian Democratic ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s CDU, is set to form a coalition after winning the most votes, per exit polls. The ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

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

BERLIN - Preliminary results show that Germany's conservative bloc, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social ...

Friedrich Merz’s mainstream Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, ...

Alternative for Germany, the reformation party that sits to the right of the CDU/CSU's centrist conservatism, received ...