The conservative CDU/CSU won, and the chancellor's Social Democrats were voted out in a disastrous result for the party. One in five Germans voted for the far right. What does this mean for Germany?

Germany’s Friedrich Merz has pledged to gain “independence” from the US after his centre-right CDU/CSU alliance won ...

The left-wing conservative BSW party fell just short of the 5% threshold to enter the Bundestag with a nail-biting share of 4 ...

The euro got a small boost from the CDU/CSU being able to form a coalition only with the SPD, without any smaller third party ...

The conservatives will first enter talks without Scholz, who apologised for SPD's bitter defeat at 16%, while his popular ...

An analysis of Germany’s election data shows that Sunday’s vote was historic for several reasons. Five key observations show ...

CDU/CSU secured 28.6 percent of the vote, followed by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) with 20.8 percent and the Social ...

Germany's conservative election winner Friedrich Merz faced an uphill struggle to build a coalition government on Monday, a ...

Here are the main takeaways of Germany’s legislative elections: The elections have highlighted the steady erosion in support for the so-called people’s parties — the CDU and the SPD — that have ...

BERLIN — Germany’s conservatives won the national election on Sunday but a fractured vote handed the far-right Alternative ...

Friedrich Merz has emerged victorious in a general election which saw dramatic changes in German politics - but given that ...