Friedrich Merz's conservative alliance won Germany's general elections, pushing Olaf Scholz's SPD out of power. But something even more shocking than SDU's numbers was the rise of far-right ...

It was not just older voters that moved right. Among men between the ages of 18 and 24, support for the anti-mass migration ...

The first of the four so-called Grand Coalitions, which was led by CDU leader Kurt Georg Kiesinger, weighed 90 per cent in the Bundestag in 1966. Angela Merkel’s first of three governments with the ...

After Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won a plurality of seats in federal elections Sunday, party ...

When Germans went to the polls on Sunday, February 23, three main issues appeared to be weighing on the public: high energy ...

The man poised to become Germany's next chancellor accused President Trump of being indifferent to Europe’s plight and blasted Washington’s interference in the general election. Friedrich Merz has ...

Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) on Monday insisted that the "responsibility" to lead negotiations on the formation of ...

Sunday’s federal elections in Germany were held at a time when Germany’s support for human rights both at home and on the ...

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

AfD saw the biggest victory of a far right party since WWII as Social Democrats suffered their largest postwar defeat.

Germany now faces weeks to months of negotiations as the conservatives, under presumptive Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz, ...

However, owing to a constitutional amendment brought in by a previous coalition government, public spending in Germany is ...