Germans vote in a national election on Sunday which is expected to see Friedrich Merz's conservatives regain power and the ...

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union is expected to be Germany's next chancellor.

The contenders in Germany’s election are making their final appeals to voters. The opposition leader and front-runner vowed ...

Germany holds a snap election on Sunday and the current coalition government of Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and the Free ...

Donald Trump is smashing up assumptions about America’s place in Europe’s security architecture that perhaps held faster in ...

The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz stepped up his attacks on rival Robert Habeck from the Greens as the campaign ahead of Germany’s federal elections enters the final stretch.

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on the minds of German voters. The far-right AfD is polling in second place.

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

When Germans vote on February 23, conservative Friedrich Merz is the strong favourite to become the next chancellor after a ...

While polling suggests Germany's far-right AfD party will fare well, it's very unlikely to be part of the next government of ...

And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...