Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory, while Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded his center-left Social ...

The Christian Democrat, who appeared to have a path to a stable governing coalition, hopes to lead Europe’s response to ...

Whether he can form a strong coalition remains to be seen, but whatever he does will be an essential part of Europe’s ...

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory ...

Friedrich Merz will be the next chancellor of Germany. And he still can’t tell what his government program will be. His ...

That paves the way for their candidate, Friedrich Merz (pictured), to take over from Olaf Scholz as chancellor after ...

Millions of Germans are deciding the next chancellor in snap elections Sunday with the center-right Christian Democratic ...

Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces ...

Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...

Germany has voted — and the exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz and his Conservative Party on course for a ...

Exit polls show the center-right Christian Democratic Union party leading, with the AfD party heading towards the strongest ...