Friedrich Merz has succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to ...

His countrymen, he declares, will have to ‘engage’ with the AfD, ‘factually and on substance.’ ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament ...

Representatives for Germany's center-right Union bloc and the center-left Social Democrats on Monday formally signed a ...

(CN) — Alternative for Germany, a far-right anti-immigrant party that now tops opinion polls only two months after it scored ...

The centre-left party will send four women and three men to the cabinet of incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Germany's domestic intelligence service has classified the popular Alternative for Germany party as "extremist," allowing for ...

Merz was elected chancellor Tuesday during a second vote in parliament, hours after he suffered a historic defeat in the first round.

The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholtz ... with 328 of the Bundestag’s 630 seats. The Union and Social Democrats have governed Germany together before: once in the 1960s, and then in ...

Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius -- who has led the push to make the military "ready for war" so it doesn't have to ...