Merkel ran in the first elections of a united Germany in December 1990 and won narrowly in a constituency she would represent ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative rival of Angela Merkel, is on track to become the next chancellor, though the far-right AfD is ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

Germany’s rocky path towards Sunday’s early elections began when the outgoing coalition government collapsed on November 6, ...

The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just ...

When Donald Trump won the US election in November, Germany’s government imploded. Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance ...

The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap election.

German voters head to the polls in a winter election on Sunday, but may not have a new government for several months.

Germany heads to the polls on Sunday. Immigration and the economy topped the agenda during the campaign. The conservative ...