That paves the way for their candidate, Friedrich Merz (pictured), to take over from Olaf Scholz as chancellor after ...

Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian CSU sister party won the election on Sunday and are ...

Friedrich Merz is set to lead Europe's largest economy after his conservative CDU-CSU group won Germany's parliamentary ...

Exit polls show Friedrich Merz's conservatives leading in Germany's election, with concerns over far-right party strength and ...

The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap election.

Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc won the national election, with Friedrich Merz likely to become chancellor. The far-right ...

This important election has galvanised voters, and campaigning resumed on Saturday evening with a final discussion on ...

Ursula von der Leyen is about to face the most serious challenge to her leadership since she became European Commission ...

With exit polls broadly in line with what was expected by markets, investors’ attention will now turn to how quickly Merz can ...

Germany’s conservatives won Sunday’s elections, with their leader Friedrich Merz set to become the next chancellor, followed ...

Early projections say Germany's conservative bloc has secured some 28.5% of the votes ahead of the far-right AfD with over 20 ...