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

Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...

Germany has voted — and the exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz and his Conservative Party on course for a ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the country's presumptive next chancellor, has again ruled out cooperating with ...

Germany's conservatives, led by Friedrich Merz, won the election but face complex coalition talks. The far-right AfD secured second place with its best result. Merz aims to stabilize Germany amidst ...

Follow DW for the latest. With just four days to the vote, Merz's CDU/CSU bloc is leading in the polls, with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in second, and Scholz's SPD trailing in third.

They were excluded by the “firewall”—an agreement among the other parties to refuse to collaborate with the AfD on anything. But on January 29, Merz cracked the firewall, introducing an anti ...

AfD leader Alice Weidel’s number of followers ... accusing the Trump administration of election interference. Friedrich Merz, leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union and widely ...

The anti-immigration AfD — backed strongly by the inner circle of US President Donald Trump — looks set for its best-ever result of around 20 percent, according to current polling. Merz said ...