Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and ...

Germany has long been considered to have relatively ambitious climate goals and it’s likely that combatting climate change ...

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

A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition government will have ...

Friedrich Merz is on track to become Germany’s next chancellor after his center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s CDU, is set to form a coalition after winning the most votes, per exit polls. The ...

Friedrich Merz’s mainstream Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, ...

While the positions of Bundestag members on North Korea are divided, their assessment of the South Korean insurrection ...

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

Decades after the unification of Germany, the rise of extremist parties has divided the country once again, leaving the ...