The centre-right party's leader Friedrich Merz said CDU and SPD are to enter talks to form a coalition, one day after the ...

German politicians reacted on Monday to the preliminary results of the federal parliamentary elections, in which the ...

A senior member of Germany's conservative bloc has called on the Social Democrats to put party interests behind those of the ...

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

Germany's conservatives won the country's snap elections, but many in the party are disappointed at its overall showing. The ...

The centre-right CDU party has won the German elections but achieved a historically low result. The far-right AfD doubled its ...

After a humbling election defeat for Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democrats (SPD), the party looked to collect ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, has said "from tomorrow we start working" on forming a government as ...

CDU and Merz managed to unseat SPD, but the party failed to gain enough seats for an outright majority. According to Peter Doran, an adjunct senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of ...

Friedrich Merz from the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is on track to be Germany’s next chancellor.

Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, putting its leader Friedrich Merz in pole position to be next chancellor. Follow ...

CDU's Friedrich Merz has claimed victory while SPD's Olaf Scholz has regretted the "bitter" election result. The German ...