Leadership from Berlin will be essential to safeguard Europe against Russia and ward off election interference from America.

Exit polls suggest that Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the conservative Christian Democrats who has vowed to bring ...

Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, ...

The Christian Democrat, who appeared to have a path to a stable governing coalition, hopes to lead Europe’s response to ...

The Kremlin said on Monday it would have to wait and see how ties between Russia and any new German government evolved after ...

Friedrich Merz has expressed a desire to ‘strengthen Europe as quickly as possible’ in the face of a growing rift between EU ...

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Friedrich Merz, on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after the country's election, has vowed to ...

Friedrich Merz has led his center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to a clear election victory, polls suggest, and is ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the favourite to become the country's next chancellor after initial results showed ...

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

However, reunification in 1990 allowed Angela Merkel, the East German daughter of a protestant pastor, to enter politics and ...