The CDU/CSU received approximately 28.5% of votes in Sunday’s election, coming in close to the 30% support estimated ahead of the polls. This will put them in first place, but their victory is ...

DW rounds up the latest. Preliminary coalition talks between the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), its Bavarian sister party the CSU, and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) will continue ...

Preliminary talks between Germany's CDU and SPD have yielded an early result, with the parties agreeing on a special fund to boost defense spending, freed from the "debt brake." Merz made the ...

German voters go to the polls this Sunday to elect a new parliament, with Merz's centre-right CDU/CSU leading the polls at around 30%, ahead of far-right AfD at 20%. Due to the German “firewall ...

BERLIN, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian CSU sister party won the election on Sunday and are likely to lead the next coalition government.

With 20% of the popular vote, this was by far AfD’s highest ever polling. During the election campaign Merz’ Christian Democrats (CDU) sparked outrage when they broke the post-war cordon sanitaire and ...

Germany's top opposition leader Friedrich Merz is set to become the country's next leader after exit polls in the federal election held Sunday show his centre-right CDU party unassailably in front.

In a significant political maneuver, incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right Christian Democratic alliance (CDU) last week submitted an inquiry targeting NGOs, which involved 551 ...

In Germany, Friedrich Merz is set to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party placed first in Sunday’s election. Merz said Germany and Europe must achieve independence ...

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Five days after parliamentary elections on February 23, the leaders of the two political parties in talks to form a coalition – Friedrich Merz, president of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU ...

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