The new government must "focus on getting the economy out of its structural stagnation...if the main motivation of such a ...

The conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), which is in alliance with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), emerged as the ...

Germany's centre-right CDU/CSU bloc has won national elections by a large margin, with all constituencies counted, paving the ...

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

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

Both the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland and the far-left Die Linke saw significant gains and were the most popular ...

The Christian Democrats are forming a new coalition, with plans that include a possible restart of nuclear power.

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

“This is a historic success for us—our best result ever,” AfD’s chancellor candidate and co-leader, Alice Weidel, told ...

Voters turned out in record numbers for the German election. Here’s a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats in ...

AfD saw the biggest victory of a far right party since WWII as Social Democrats suffered their largest postwar defeat.