Despite significant gains for the far right, the election may just result in a German government able to take on a leadership role in Europe.

Friedrich Merz may create a new European military alliance.

Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, whose centre-right bloc won the country's election on Sunday, ...

The crucial question now is which coalition will help Friedrich Merz secure the Chancellorship, and how stable and enduring ...

As soon as the election commission summed up the official results of the Bundestag elections, their triumphant Friedrich Merz made it clear to the acting Chancellor Olaf Scholz that in the coming ...

With Merz at the helm and the SPD’s Boris Pistorius likely gaining a seat at the table, Ukraine can expect a stronger ally in ...

Notably, the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 19.5 percent votes. Its leader Alice Weidel expressed her ...

Far-right gains and a ‘sharper and edgier’ chancellor are among the takeaways from the country’s contest, an expert says.

Germany now faces weeks to months of negotiations as the conservatives, under presumptive Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz, ...

In German elections Sunday, voters boosted parties on the partisan poles. Patience with faltering attempts to govern from the ...

Non-partisan social media users in Germany are seeing right-leaning content more than twice as much than left-leaning content ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...