BERLIN — Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won an unexciting victory in a national election Sunday, ...

Frontrunner Friedrich Merz has declared victory for his CDU/CSU bloc after exit polls suggested they have secured nearly 30 ...

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

Germany's conservative alliance has emerged victorious in the national election, paving the way for Friedrich Merz to become ...

It is clear that this [the U.S.] government does not care much about the fate of Europe,” says Friedrich Merz, who is set to ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU won Germany's elections with 28.6 percent, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) recorded ...

European markets are expected to open in broadly higher territory Monday as traders react to the results of the German ...

Projections show German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in Sunday's national ...

Germany’s conservative bloc, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have emerged as the biggest winners in the German federal election, ...

The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the fringe have gone mainstream.