Friedrich Merz (L), Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag, speaks next to Markus Soeder, Minister President of Bavaria and chairman ...

Germany's conservative CDU/CSU alliance has dropped to just 28% in a new poll, just 19 days before the country votes in one of the most important elections in recent memory. Meanwhile, the formerly ...

Germany’s conservative Christian Democrat-led bloc secured 208 out of 630 seats in the lower house of parliament, meaning its leader, Friedrich Merz, will have to navigate complicated coalition ...

Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU), its more openly right-wing Bavarian affiliate, announced the names of their ministers in the incoming federal ...

• Friedrich Merz is likely to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party topped the vote in elections, exit polls project. The stuttering economy and immigration were major ...

Polls opened at 8 a.m. (0700 UTC) and closed at 6 p.m. Latest projections put CDU/CSU at 29%, the right-wing populist AfD at around 19.5%, and Chancellor Scholz's SPD at 16% The AfD is shunned by ...

BERLIN — The Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, have few options in front of them to form a government after taking first place in the German ...

One of the stated goals of the coalition agreement between the CDU/CSU and SPD is the militarization of Germany’s universities. “We are committed to removing obstacles that impede dual-use research or ...

Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, won a stunning gain in Sunday’s election — capturing an estimated one in five votes across the European Union’s largest country ...