But experts say a Merz-led government may also not give the German ... As voters prepare to head to the polls, it is now all but certain that Germany will soon have a new chancellor. The Christian ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Germans head to the ... A strong German government would be important to Europe's response to the new US administration and to turmoil in Ukraine and elsewhere. Germany and neighbouring France ...

Germany’s Greens say they won't support the prospective next government’s plans to loosen debt rules for defense spending and ...

With the collapse of the previous coalition government led by Chancellor ... of asylum seekers convicted of crimes in Germany. As Germans head to the polls, they will essentially be choosing ...

The prospective partners in Germany’s next government say they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to ...

Friedrich Merz, Germany's likely next head of government, is already trying to shape foreign policy. He is especially concerned about Germany's ailing relationships with France and Poland.

Friedrich Merz, head of the CDU/CSU bloc that won last month's elections, has argued that in the era of US President Donald ...

BERLIN: German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) concluded preliminary talks on ...