BERLIN (Reuters) - Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just ...

Arduous coalition negotiations tend to drag on for weeks if not months in the country. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The far-right AfD likely will score its best ever result as Europe's ailing economic powerhouse lurches rightwards. The ...

Friedrich Merz, the man expected to become Germany's next chancellor, has vowed to rule Europe’s top economy by returning to ...

Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United ...

German voters head to the polls on Sunday, with the conservatives the strong favourites after a campaign rocked by a ...

From Elon Musk to Zelenskyy, here’s a look at foreign actors who had a strong influence on the German political landscape as ...

In a survey out last year, women aged 14 to 29 reported significantly less support for Merz’s party than their male peers ...

German voters are choosing a new government in an election Sunday dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of ...

A network of more than 700 fake social media accounts has sprung up in the last week of Germany's election campaign.

German voters are choosing the next leaders of Europe’s biggest economy on Sunday with polls suggesting a likely victory for the opposition conservatives under Friedrich Merz and a bitter loss for ...

Ursula von der Leyen is about to face the most serious challenge to her leadership since she became European Commission ...