Voting opened Sunday in a German general election that opinion polls suggest ... what we build up in the Federal Republic of Germany. There is no co-operation with this party,” he said.

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory.

BERLIN — After our federal ... Merz won the election with 28.5% of the vote by campaigning on more deportations, less taxes and a “spiritual and moral turnaround" to "German values” like ...

While the far right made historic gains in Germany’s pivotal federal elections on Sunday, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party ultimately thrived with Friedrich Merz securing nearly ...

Friedrich Merz, who is on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor after the country's election ... He first joined the German parliament in 1994. A pilot openly passionate ...

While the far right made historic gains in Germany’s pivotal federal elections on Sunday ... just look at the recent interference in the German election campaign by Mr. Elon Musk.

Germany's important election last week struggled to make the news cycle, even on Germany's own Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's equivalent of Britain's BBC. Especially (but not only) in the ...

The CDU has emerged as the largest party with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) second – its best-ever result in a federal election ... Merz spoke of a German Leitkultur (loosely ...