Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz emerged as the winner in Sunday’s election, but the results gave his bloc just one clear path to power with intense pressure to move quickly to ...

German Election 2025: In one of the most high stakes elections, the Germans would decide upon the next government to lead the country on Sunday when they vote at 8am (local time) and the opinion polls ...

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The AfD, despite being under surveillance by German domestic intelligence services for pursuing “goals that run against the human dignity of certain groups and against democracy,” has polled ...

In German public broadcaster ARD's Berliner Runde post-election debate on Sunday night, all main candidates gathered to discuss key takeaways. Merz reaffirmed his stance against forming a ...

The German electoral authority confirmed the CDU's win in preliminary results, followed by the far-right AfD. The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) have gained the highest percentage of ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won the German election, defeating Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democrats. Merz says he wants to form a government within two months, saying he wants to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Election posters showing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and CDU top candidate for chancellor ...

Auto supplier Continental plans to shutter one plant in Germany, as the company has fallen short of financial targets, despite earlier cutbacks. German auto parts supplier Continental announced ...

The image of German leadership has taken a hit at home as well as among other Europeans, with a notable decline from a median of 60% to 54% in the past 12 months alone. Slovenia, Norway ...

German news media, and much of the country’s political leadership, immersed themselves to a larger degree in a blizzard of foreign-policy pronouncements from the Trump administration as Western ...

“If I understood him correctly, he is comparing conditions in parts of Europe with those in authoritarian regimes,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Friday. “That is ...