Despite significant gains for the far right, the election may just result in a German government able to take on a leadership role in Europe.

Of all three former governing parties, the Greens performed best in the general election. But they have still landed in ...

The German electorate has backed conservative Friedrich Merz to lead Germany, and by extension Europe, during a decisive stress test in trans-Atlantic relations. Can he rise to expectations?

After more than three years with Chancellor Olaf Scholz at Germany’s helm, Sunday’s election cemented the country’s lurch to ...

The outcome of the German election “has not resulted in a clear path to the constitution being changed to allow for a step ...

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

AfD saw the biggest victory of a far right party since WWII as Social Democrats suffered their largest postwar defeat.

Germany now faces weeks to months of negotiations as the conservatives, under presumptive Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz, ...

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have emerged victorious in Germany’s snap parliamentary elections, dealing a significant blow to ...

Financial markets rose on the likelihood of a two-party coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD, with Germany's benchmark ...

The German election on Sunday demonstrated that voters demand a stark change in how the ruling coalition has governed the ...