Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

With 28.5% of the vote, conservative party CDU leader Friedrich Merz is set on the path to becoming the next chancellor.

The CDU/CSU won the German elections on Sunday but have limited options to form a government after taking first place in the German elections as expected.

The votes were still being counted Sunday but the results were clear: Germany’s conservative Friedrich Merz is the new ...

Friedrich Merz, set to become Germany's next chancellor after his opposition conservatives won the national election on ...

Germany’s conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the elections, securing over 28% of the vote, while the far-right AfD gained over 20%. Outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s SPD suffered a historic low ...

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US President Donald Trump welcomed Germany's poll results, saying the German people rejected policies lacking common sense.

According to Vice-Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Konstantin Kosachev, Friedrich Merz will adhere to the pan-European position ...

DAX futures firmed 0.2%, while EUROSTOXX 50 futures were flat. The euro edged 0.3% higher to $1.0493 after the CDU/CSU won as ...

The vote comes at a pivotal time for Europe, which faces an increasingly assertive Trump administration.

BERLIN >> Germany’s conservatives won the national election on Sunday but a fractured vote handed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) its best ever result in second place and left conservative ...