Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany's chancellor after a historic election, aims to secure European independence from the U.S. amid complex coalition negotiations. Despite rising far-right ...

BERLIN >> Germany’s conservatives won the national election on Sunday but a fractured vote handed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) its best ever result in second place and left conservative ...

It was on Sunday night, as the votes were being counted, that Merz revealed what could become the defining mission of his chancellorship. His aim, he said, was “to achieve independence” from the US ...

German voters cast their ballots in Sunday’s election, with opposition leader Friedrich Merz claiming victory and Chancellor ...

Germany voters made a change at the top on Sunday, delivering a victory to centrist conservatives in the parliamentary ...

The country's opposition conservatives now face messy coalition talks as the controversial Alternative for Germany party ...

Whether he can form a strong coalition remains to be seen, but whatever he does will be an essential part of Europe’s ...

As predicted by pre-election opinion polls, Germany’s conservatives swept to victory in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, ...

After winning the German election with under 30 percent of the vote, the conservative leader Friedrich Merz will have to ...

GERMANY’S conservatives swept to victory in Sunday’s elections, with their leader Friedrich Merz set to become the next ...