Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

Germany’s Social Democrats are under pressure to quickly revamp leadership as a role in a new government beckons, even though ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

A reform of Germany's constitutionally enshrined debt brake, which limits public borrowing, would be discussed by the leaders ...

Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...

German voters are heading to the polls for a national election. German voters are heading to the polls Sunday for a national ...

Scholz, the 66-year-old incumbent chancellor, is facing an uphill struggle for re-election as his Social Democratic Party ...

The ripple effect that Germany’s election could spell across Britain, the US and EU German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) after what he called ...

As Sunday’s snap federal election nears, political parties are intensifying their efforts in the final stretch to drum up ...

Merz, 69, has promised to provide greater leadership than Chancellor Olaf Scholz and to liaise more with key allies, restoring Germany to the heart of Europe. A brash economic liberal who has ...

Despite falling more than 9 percentage points to 16.3% in Sunday’s election, the SPD will probably be tapped by-election ...