Germany’s September 20 state elections delivered another major setback for Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the CDU. In ...

Friedrich Merz says he intends to stay on as the leader of Germany and his party after a string of state election defeats.

The chancellor has come under increasing pressure after resounding state election defeats, but says the results "go far ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was adamant on Monday that he still has enough backing from within his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to hold on to his job, despite the party's latest, historic ...

Die Linke’s Berlin triumph has brought scrutiny of its ties to pro-Palestinian activists and disputes over antisemitism into negotiations over the capital’s next government. Germany’s far-left Die ...

Since the 2024 European elections, Germany's right and far right have repeatedly voted together to toughen immigration laws, ...

For the past six years, Germany has either been in recession or stagnated. By comparison, real GDP in the United States has increased by more than 15 percent since 2020, while the economies of the ...

By James Mackenzie BERLIN, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Germany's far right and far left both made big gains in Sunday's state elections, exposing yet again the erosion of the political centre in Europe's ...

The chancellor intends to stay on despite 'disaster' for his conservative CDU party, which was squeezed at the polls by both ...

Boris Rhein from Hesse has also occasionally been floated as an alternative to Merz, but has a relatively low public profile. In each case, contenders might want to keep their powder dry for longer, ...

Debacle: ruling CDU failed to reach the 5% threshold and is out of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional parliament.

Germany faces political uncertainty as Merz, 70, clings to power in the aftermath of three hefty defeats this month, which saw the CDU ousted from a state parliament for the first time ever and the ...