BERLIN (Reuters) - Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just ...

The far-right AfD likely will score its best ever result as Europe's ailing economic powerhouse lurches rightwards. The ...

Arduous coalition negotiations tend to drag on for weeks if not months in the country. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

The polls are open across Germany in an election that could shape Europe’s response to the new Trump administration, the ...

Friedrich Merz, the man expected to become Germany's next chancellor, has vowed to rule Europe's top economy by returning to ...

Frontrunner Friedrich Merz has vowed a tough rightward shift if elected to win back voters from the far-right ...

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

In a survey out last year, women aged 14 to 29 reported significantly less support for Merz’s party than their male peers ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he will travel to Washington to try to convince President Donald Trump that ...

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.

Ursula von der Leyen is about to face the most serious challenge to her leadership since she became European Commission ...