The conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), which is in alliance with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), emerged as the ...

Bavarian state Premier Markus Söder defended plans for massive debt-backed spending by Germany on infrastructure and defence ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democrats, has ruled out a coalition with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU won Germany's elections with 28.6 percent, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) recorded ...

A senior conservative lawmaker in Germany believes that the centre-right bloc, which clearly won Sunday's election according ...

The vote comes at a pivotal time for Europe, which faces an increasingly assertive Trump administration.

Although the far-right AfD won 152 seats and would give CDU leader Friedrich Merz a comfortable 360-seat majority, he has already declared he won't form a coalition with the party.

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