The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have emerged victorious in Germany’s snap parliamentary elections, dealing a significant blow to ...

The American message in Munich a week ago made German-US relations an unexpectedly divisive German election issue. Germans ...

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

Friedrich Merz and his party, the CDU/CSU, are on the cusp of entering office and will face tough decisions ahead on how to ...

Friedrich Merz, the presumptive chancellor of Germany, has confirmed he will seek a coalition with the social democratic SPD ...

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

After a close-run election, a new German parliament is coming together. Our columnist Brian Melican shares who the vote ...

Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election while a ...

The mood in Berlin‘s Adenauer Haus, the headquarters of the German Christian Democrats, was predictably joyful yesterday, but ...

Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...

The conservative CDU/CSU won, and the chancellor's Social Democrats were voted out in a disastrous result for the party. One in five Germans voted for the far right. What does this mean for Germany?

Friedrich Merz is set to become the next Chancellor at a time of great tumult at home and abroad, writes John Kampfner.