Lawmakers from the incoming chancellor’s CDU party signal an end to the “firewall” that saw mainstream politicians refuse to ...

Modern politics can be brutally unforgiving for incumbent politicians. Yet, for incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz, ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany's next chancellor. Friedrich Merz, chairman of the conservative Christian Democratic ...

Two months after the German parliamentary elections, the AfD is once again ahead of the CDU/CSU in a poll, reaching a new ...

Even as Friedrich Merz of the CDU/CSU bloc has struck a deal to form a government in Germany, the far-right AfD has emerged ...

Germany's incoming coalition government is seeking a common position on how to deal with the far-right Alternative for ...

Friedrich Merz and his conservative Christian Democratic Union must now persuade Germans that he can fix the economy and get ...

The Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) bloc and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) enjoy ...

The announcement of a governing coalition formalizes what appeared destined to happen after February's election.

The agreement was concluded relatively quickly but still took about six and half weeks, during which the country had been ...

German conservatives under Friedrich Merz clinched a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, ...

AfD’s new position may also shutter talks of outright banning the party, a controversial proposal that split mainstream ...