The conservative CDU led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's 2025 election. With vote counting finished, preliminary results show ...

While Germany’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is set to form a coalition with the Social Democratic Party ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came in second, doubling its result from last time. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) lost a lot, their coalition partner the Greens a ...

We sought to seed the accounts with an equal interest in Germany’s four major parties – the Christian Democrats (CDU), ...

Friedrich Merz has confirmed he hopes to form a coalition government featuring his Christian Democratic Union and the ...

The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the CSU, led with 28.6% of the vote, while the AfD came in second with 20.8%, more than doubling its previous share. CDU leader ...

OP-ED. The likely future German chancellor may be a hard-line conservative, but he could well be the man to transform the country and revitalize Europe, writes international relations specialist ...

Friedrich Merz previously held the position of the chairman of the united CDU/CSU faction during the last legislative period from 2000 to 2002 ...

Sir Keir Starmer must offer Europe the protection of Britain’s nuclear weapons amid fears of Donald Trump scaling back ...

The incoming CDU-led government inherits a daunting to-do list: revive economic growth, achieve greater European strategic ...

The Christian Democratic Union Party's win in Germany ensures that Europe's biggest economy is likely to continue to lead on ...

The AfD parliamentary faction, which is jubilant after securing a record 21 per cent in Sunday’s federal elections, also ...