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

BERLIN - Germans were voting in a national election on Sunday that is expected to see Friedrich Merz's conservatives regain ...

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

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

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

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

Friedrich Merz, the man expected to become Germany's next chancellor, has vowed to rule Europe's top economy by returning to his Christian Democrats' conservative roots, help business and crack down ...

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

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

The center-right opposition is favored to win, while polls point to the strongest result for a far-right party since World ...

A network of more than 700 fake social media accounts has sprung up in the last week of Germany's election campaign.

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