As Sunday’s snap federal election nears, political parties are intensifying their efforts in the final stretch to drum up ...

BERLIN — (AP) — Conservative leader and front-runner Friedrich Merz has cast his vote in the German election. Merz is the ...

Sunday’s election comes as Germany and the rest of Europe grapple with the new Trump administration, the Russia-Ukraine war ...

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

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Opposition Leader Friedrich Merz faced off in a final debate on German television on Wednesday ahead of elections next Sunday. Is French President Emmanuel Macron’s ...

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 ...

In a survey out last year, women aged 14 to 29 reported significantly less support for Merz’s party than their male peers ...

Scholz, the 66-year-old incumbent chancellor, is facing an uphill struggle for re-election as his Social Democratic Party ...