Friedrich Merz’s Conservatives win as far right party makes big gains - Likely new chancellor has ruled out coalition with ...

US president Donald Trump has hailed Sunday as a "great day for Germany" after an election in which conservative opposition ...

For the first time since the Second World War, a far-right party has come second in a German national election, a result that ...

Merz, 69, faces complex and lengthy coalition negotiations after the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged to a ...

Merz had signalled openness to reforming Germany’s “debt brake” to finance badly needed infrastructure investments and a ...

Germany's mainstream conservatives won the country's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation's second-largest party, according to provisional results following Sunday's ...

Centre-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc emerged as the frontrunner in Germany’s national election ...

Provisional results in Germany’s election confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national ...

Alternative for Germany (AfD) has surged to become the countrys second-largest political party, marking a dramatic rise in ...

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

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has triumphed at Germany’s ballot boxes, paving his way to become the next chancellor. His ...