Friedrich Merz’s conservative party is the winner of the German general election, while current Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party experienced its worst result since the late 19th century.

Friedrich Merz’s conservative party is the winner of the German general election, while current Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party experienced its worst result since the late 19th century.

Voters in Germany are casting their ballots in general elections ... The latest opinion poll by German public broadcaster ZDF shows the largest opposition, the center-right alliance of the ...

Following a German general’s bleak assessment in 2022 that Germany couldn’t defend itself if invaded, German politicians face difficult choices as their Zeitenwende defense fund runs dry.

German citizens went to the polls this Sunday, taking part in snap federal elections in a vote that will shape the course of the EU's largest member state and its biggest economy for the next four ...

Friedrich Merz, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party candidate for chancellor, arrives to vote during the 2025 general election ... time the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, has ...

The German electoral authority confirmed the CDU's win in preliminary results, followed by the far-right AfD. The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) have gained the highest percentage of ...

Carsten Breuer, Inspector General of the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces), has arrived in Ukraine ahead of the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Source: Oleksandr Syrskyi, ...

"The Social Democrats and the Conservative party in Germany, they built the German energy dependency from Russia, and they did it willingly," he said. "I'm concerned that the lecture we learned in ...

Both the euro and German equity markets are likely to be boosted by the outcome of the German snap election over the weekend. The euro climbed to above 1.05, the highest in two months during ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won the German election, defeating Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democrats. Merz says he wants to form a government within two months, saying he wants to ...

Voters who cast their ballots on February 23, 2025, did not directly elect the next German chancellor. Instead, they will elect politicians to the Bundestag, the lower house of German parliament.