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

Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

European markets are expected to open in broadly higher territory Monday as traders react to the results of the German ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory, while Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded his center-left Social ...

The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the ...

German citizens aged 18 and up can vote. At least 59.2 million people in the nation of 84 million are eligible, about 2.3 ...

Germany's opposition conservatives won the national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be the next ...

Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...

Polls opened across Germany on Sunday in an election that could shape Europe’s response to the new Trump administration, the ...

The Christian Democratic Union and its allied Christian Social Union secured the largest share of votes in the German federal ...

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