He has repeatedly pledged not to work with the far-right anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party despite their second-place finish.

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Afroditi Latinopoulou, leader of Greece's Voice of Reason party, responded to the German election results by blaming former ...

The pound traded lower against the euro on Monday after Germany's conservatives won a national election as expected.

Federal Election has exacerbated the political crisis in Germany and Europe. The result confronts workers and young people ...

The Kremlin said on Monday it would have to wait and see how ties between Russia and any new German government evolved after ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives were on course for a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while Alternative for Germany nearly doubled its support, the strongest ...

Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a ...