The Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, have few options in front of them ...

He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and ...

A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition government will have ...

One of the first acts of Chancellor-elect Friedrich Merz (Christian Democrat, CDU) after the election was to invite the right ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

Paul Hockenos is a journalist and author based in Berlin. His most recent book is “Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

The Christian Democratic Union has won a plurality in the Bundestag, preliminary exit polls suggested Sunday, while the ...

The Christian Democratic Union and its allied Christian Social Union secured the largest share of votes in the German federal ...

Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, is on course for a stunning result in Sunday’s ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...