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High Representative of the European Union Kaja Kallas urged the swift formation of a new government: “The German people have made a choice, and now they need to put together the government.

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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 ...

Merz, 69, has never held a ministerial job, but he has promised if he becomes the next German chancellor to show leadership in Europe and beef up support for Ukraine. Most Germans have been ...

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But the term can also refer to the mass deportation of migrants and their descendants. In May 2024 a German court rejected an AfD appeal against a ruling classifying it as a suspected far-right ...

Traders brace for further results from the German election. Exit polls showed Germany’s opposition conservatives Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its allied Christian Social Union (CSU ...

German citizens went to the polls this Sunday, taking part in snap federal elections in a vote that will shape the course of the EU's largest member state and its biggest economy for the next four ...

Friedrich Merz is likely to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party topped the vote in elections, exit polls project. The stuttering economy and immigration were major ...

Lengthy coalition talks could leave Scholz in a caretaker role for months, delaying urgently needed policies to revive the German economy after two consecutive years of contraction and as ...