The far-right AfD and the Left jointly secured the one third of seats needed to block constitutional changes. Both oppose ...
Who is Germany’s election winner and how will he fare against AfD leader Alice Weidel? - Friedrich Merz has taken aim at the ...
Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...
German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the country's presumptive next chancellor, has again ruled out cooperating with ...
Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, putting its leader Friedrich Merz in pole position to be next chancellor. Follow ...
Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...
They were excluded by the “firewall”—an agreement among the other parties to refuse to collaborate with the AfD on anything. But on January 29, Merz cracked the firewall, introducing an anti ...
Merz has said he wants a ruling coalition in place within two months so Berlin can act again on the European and world stage ...
Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...