Friedrich Merz has succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament ...

Merz was elected chancellor Tuesday during a second vote in parliament, hours after he suffered a historic defeat in the first round.

Representatives for Germany's center-right Union bloc and the center-left Social Democrats on Monday formally signed a ...

(CN) — Alternative for Germany, a far-right anti-immigrant party that now tops opinion polls only two months after it scored ...

The centre-left party will send four women and three men to the cabinet of incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Germany's domestic intelligence service has classified the popular Alternative for Germany party as "extremist," allowing for ...

The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholtz ... with 328 of the Bundestag’s 630 seats. The Union and Social Democrats have governed Germany together before: once in the 1960s, and then in ...

The formation of the next German government is in the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) court, now that the country's two major conservative parties have okayed the coalition agreement. The ...

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) approved a coalition agreement with the CDU/CSU conservatives, two sources close to the party said on Wednesday, clearing the last hurdle for the formation of ...

The nominations from the CDU and CSU show that the shift to the right that is taking place in the US under Donald Trump is ...

Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius -- who has led the push to make the military "ready for war" so it doesn't have to ...