Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...

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

Germany's election on Sunday delivered a win to the conservative opposition as well as a historic surge in support for the ...

What Germans decide in national elections that are likely to produce a new chancellor will be of critical importance as ...

Germany's opposition conservatives won the national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be the next ...

Exit polls suggest that Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the conservative Christian Democrats who has vowed to bring ...

If the far-right AfD performs well in Germany's national elections, it could have major implications for the EU.

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is set to return to power with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

Voters are heading to the polls in Germany, in an election which is being closely watched across Europe and in the United ...

The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the fringe have gone mainstream.

The euro jumped to a one-month high and stock futures charged ahead on Monday after Germany's conservatives won the national ...

Conservative leader and front-runner Friedrich Merz has cast his vote in the German election. Merz is the leader of the ...