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

Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

Friedrich was rising in the Conservative Party in the ‘90s, and was in a powerful position of head of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the early 2000s when Angela Merkel had her rise in parallel. At ...

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

Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...