The first of the four so-called Grand Coalitions, which was led by CDU leader Kurt Georg Kiesinger, weighed 90 per cent in the Bundestag in 1966. Angela Merkel’s first of three governments with the ...

After Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won a plurality of seats in federal elections Sunday, party ...

Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...

The Christian Democrats are forming a new coalition, with plans that include a possible restart of nuclear power.

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

Germany now faces weeks to months of negotiations as the conservatives, under presumptive Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz, ...

Germany has long been considered to have relatively ambitious climate goals and it’s likely that combatting climate change ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

Financial markets rose on the likelihood of a two-party coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD, with Germany's benchmark ...

Friedrich Merz has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent's security as it grapples with the new Trump ...

The leader of Germany's ascendant conservative party now has to build a ruling coalition after electoral wins this weekend.

Germany's incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said an 'absolute priority' for him will be to distance Europe from the U.S.