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The man likely to lead Germany's next government says there would be no cooperation with the far-right AfD. Friedrich Merz's ...

Election campaign posters showing German Social Democratic Party, SPD, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, top, and his challenger ...

Though not in attendance, Donald Trump will loom large at this year's Munich Security Conference. Europe's military leaders will have to reckon with the US president's defense spending demands and ...

Friedrich Merz, the favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, said on Monday he is ready to "lead Germany forward" as his conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) assembled in Berlin for a ...

Friedrich Merz, CDU candidate for chancellor and CDU federal chairman, left, and CSU leader Markus Seder attend the 37th ...

Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is convening in Berlin on Monday to vote on an "immediate action programme" of measures to be implemented if it wins elections on 23. The ...

The conservatives, who are leading in German polls, have put together an 'immediate action plan' they want to put in place if ...

There were more demonstrations on Monday outside the CDU's conference center in western Berlin, where police reporting some 450 protesters had assembled. Environmentalist, left-leaning parties ...

Friedrich Merz, CDU candidate for chancellor and CDU federal chairman,celebrates after his speech at the 37th federal party ...