An alliance between Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the center-left SPD is the only viable path to form a new government ...

Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option ...

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

German conservatives under likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed on Monday to move quickly to try to form a coalition ...

Germany’s election continues a slump for left-leaning parties in affluent countries, often connected to immigration and the ...

The far-right AfD and the Left jointly secured the one third of seats needed to block constitutional changes. Both oppose ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the centre-Right Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), has emerged as the winner of Germany’s ...

Talks between the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and Social Democrats (SPD) are to begin within the next couple of days, ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

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Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

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