Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and his CDU won the German election — yet his personal popularity is low and getting ...

Decades of social cuts by the SPD, the Greens and the Left Party, supported by the trade unions, have allowed the AfD to grow ...

Germany’s incoming leader Friedrich Merz quickly passed a massive fiscal package, representing a seismic shift for the ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz strongly condemned ... The leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) told German public broadcaster ARD on Sunday that the deadly ...

Friedrich Merz, Christian Democratic Union party chairman ... for a new German government at a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. Credit: AP/Ebrahim Noroozi Party ...

BERLIN (AP) — The German parliament plans to meet on May 6 to elect Friedrich Merz ... Germany's 10th chancellor, succeeding Olaf Scholz. The proposed coalition of his center-right Christian ...

Canadians will vote today in a federal election after months of uncertainty, influenced by US President Donald Trump’s ...

German free-speech advocates hoped Mr. Vance’s words might prompt their leaders to reconsider their course—if not out of ...