Germany's conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz welcomed on Monday the interest shown by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, ...

Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

Japan's biggest refiner, Eneos Corp, said on Friday it had shut down a 141,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) crude distillation unit ...

Alternative for Germany, the reformation party that sits to the right of the CDU/CSU's centrist conservatism, received ...

Friedrich Merz from the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is on track to be Germany’s next chancellor.

With all constituencies counted, the centre-right Christian Democratic Union has claimed victory, while minnows, including ...

A conservative backlash is brewing in Germany, but the likely winners are working to make the transition pragmatic and ...

CDU's Friedrich Merz has claimed victory while SPD's Olaf Scholz has regretted the "bitter" election result. The German ...

Friedrich Merz speaks during a news conference at the headquarters of Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in Berlin.

A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition government will have ...