Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, ...

CDU celebrations are muted because a 28.52pc vote share means a weaker negotiating position in coalition with the centre-Left ...

The victory in the general elections in Germany was expected to be won by the CDU/CSU bloc. He will be asked to form a new ...

When Angela Merkel rose to lead the CDU parliamentary group in 2002 and entered the Chancellery in 2005, the much more conservative-minded Merz withdrew and stayed away from politics for years.

The Left won 8.8 percent of the vote, nearly doubling its share from the last election. It performed especially well in the ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s next chancellor after early results show his conservative Christian Democratic ...

The 69-year-old CDU candidate is set to become chancellor at a time when Germany is going through a deep economic, security ...

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

and Angela Merkel. Kohl, who served as chancellor from 1990 to 1998, prided himself on holding the country’s far right in check. Like Kohl, Merz is deeply conservative and believes the CDU can ...

Polls have closed in Germany in one of the country’s most important elections so far this century, and it looks like Germany will have a new chancellor. At stake is the country’s struggling economy, ...

The 69-year-old will be the oldest chancellor since Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of the new Federal Republic of ...

An old-school conservative, Merz wants to rid the CDU of his long-time rival Angela Merkel’s more centrist legacy. He was born in 1955 into a conservative, Catholic family in the North Rhine ...