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 ...

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

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

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

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

The center-right CDU/CSU and the center-left SPD are set ... government together before — most recently under Chancellor Angela Merkel until 2021. So, they have a lot of common ground, but ...

German nationals are heading to the ballots on February 23, with the country's current Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, down in ...

Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc has won the national election and now faces coalition talks. Merz seemed keen to get to ...

But Angela Merkel, then the party's overall leader, blocked his path, and after the CDU lost the 2002 election, replaced him as parliamentary leader as well. "He embodied the more traditional ...

CDU leader Friedrich Merz and European Commission President ... Von der Leyen, 66, has reigned supreme in Brussels ever since former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, her political patron, helped to ...

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

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