German voters head to the polls on Sunday, with the conservatives the strong favourites after a campaign rocked by a ...

Conservative Friedrich Merz is expected to win, but the far-right AfD is set for a strong second place.

The far-right AfD likely will score its best ever result as Europe's ailing economic powerhouse lurches rightwards. The ...

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union is expected to be Germany's next chancellor.

The contenders in Germany’s election are making their final appeals to voters. The opposition leader and front-runner vowed ...

Donald Trump is smashing up assumptions about America’s place in Europe’s security architecture that perhaps held faster in ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on the minds of German voters. The far-right AfD is polling in second place.

Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz stepped up his attacks on rival Robert Habeck from the Greens as the campaign ahead of Germany’s federal elections enters the final stretch.

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

Friedrich Merz, 69, is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as exhilarating. And yet he promises to provide Germany with stronger leadership ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Potsdam direct candidate for the German Bundestag election, speaks at the election arena of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) on the topics of good work, a ...

For weeks, Friedrich Merz appeared to be cruising towards his life-long dream of becoming Germany’s chancellor by focusing on a pro-business pitch to revive Europe’s largest economy.