Despite significant gains for the far right, the election may just result in a German government able to take on a leadership role in Europe.

German Finance Minister Joerg Kukies told Reuters in an interview that Russia will not be readmitted into the Group of Seven ...

Friedrich Merz may create a new European military alliance.

Friedrich Merz, on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after the country's election, has vowed to ...

German voters are heading to the polls for a national election. German voters are heading to the polls Sunday for a national ...

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

Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc has won the national election and now faces coalition talks. Merz seemed keen to get to work right away, saying that "the world isn't waiting for us." ...

The victory in the general elections in Germany was expected to be won by the CDU/CSU bloc. He will be asked to form a new ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Put simply, more than four in every five of Germany's 59.2 million voters turned out. It reflects just how energised Germans ...

Incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz is working overtime to warn Germans that the time of stagnation that prevailed under the former chancellor Olaf Scholz must come to an end.