Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor ...

While polling suggests Germany's far-right AfD party will fare well, it's very unlikely to be part of the next government of ...

For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.

Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...

A network of more than 700 fake social media accounts has sprung up in the last week of Germany's election campaign, ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he will travel to Washington to try to convince President Donald Trump that ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to be Germany’s next chancellor, said he’s open to considering common European Union ...

Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap election.

- Election posters showing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and CDU top candidate for chancellor Friedrich Merz in ...

German nationals are heading to the ballots on February 23, with the country's current Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, down in ...