Amid deteriorating transatlantic relations, Germany's economic future depends on the ability to chart an independent course ...

The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is ...

Friedrich Merz faces complex coalition negotiations after the far-right AfD surged to a historic second place in a fractured vote after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's unloved three-way ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz will start trying to form a coalition ... and an assertive Russia and China. The 69-year-old faces lengthy coalition negotiations after the far ...

Friedrich Merz will be the next chancellor of Germany. And he still can’t tell what his government program will be. His conservative alliance received around 29% of the vote in Sunday’s snap general ...

Nahal Toosi is POLITICO’s senior foreign affairs correspondent. She has reported on war, genocide and political chaos in a career that has taken her around the world. Germans delivered a major ...

Germany now faces weeks to months of negotiations as the conservatives, under presumptive Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz, try to form a government collation. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau ...

The most likely outcome of the election is a coalition of Merz's conservative bloc and Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD), who came in third, after the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged ...

Merz's conservative CDU/CSU bloc took first place in Sunday's election with 28.5% - their second worst result of the postwar era - while the AfD won 20.8%, its best ever result, according to ...

"And if crimes are committed, perpetrators must face tougher punishments," he says. "Including, if they are not German citizens, deportation to where they came from." Merz first takes issue with ...