Merz, 69, now faces difficult and time-consuming coalition discussions after the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ...

The election results mark a turning point in German politics. Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left Social Democrats (SPD) ...

European shares steadied on Monday as Germany's election produced no nasty surprise, while Wall Street futures firmed on ...

Germany's conservative bloc, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), has taken the lead in ...

Opposition conservatives win German election Conservative chief Friedrich Merz hits out at US AfD scores historic result but ...

The CDU/CSU has won the Bundestag election after all constituencies have been counted - well ahead of the second-placed AfD ...

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has acknowledged his party’s heavy loss in the national elections held on Sunday, February 23.

The vote comes at a pivotal time for Europe, which faces an increasingly assertive Trump administration.

BERLIN: Friedrich Merz, set to become Germany's next chancellor after his opposition conservatives won the national election ...

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 ...

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory.