The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) won the second-largest share of the votes in the German election, it's the ...

Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

Friedrich Merz — the leader of the victorious Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union alliance — is a U.S.-loving ...

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

Voters give the center-right a chance to govern, but the AfD lurks to take advantage of failure.

German voters are heading to the polls Sunday for a national election. The race pits the incumbent chancellor against the ...

The Christian-Democratic center-right party (CDU/CSU), led by Friedrich Merz, will return to be the ruling party with 220 ...

POLITICO breaks down what the conservatives’ victory means for EU policy and cooperation ― from nuclear weapons to cannabis.

A series of attacks helped fuel debate about immigration in the weeks before German voters cast their ballots for a new ...

A marked moment of political severance came at the end of January, when Friedrich Merz pushed through a non-binding motion on ...