Deeply divided Germany elects conservative Merz chancellor, far right surges to second place
Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, crumbling international order and sluggish German economy face the incoming chancellor.
These include an economic malaise that has gripped the country in recent years, with its car-and-export-orientated economy ...
Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
Fears after rise of far-right in eastern Germany leaves multicultural Berlin surrounded - Germans on either side of the ...
Sunday’s federal elections in Germany were held at a time when Germany’s support for human rights both at home and on the ...
The Christian Democratic Union has won a plurality in the Bundestag, preliminary exit polls suggested Sunday, while the ...
While the far right made historic gains in Germany's elections on Sunday, Conservative politician Friedrich Merz won with ...
Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...
Germany has long been considered to have relatively ambitious climate goals and it’s likely that combatting climate change ...
German authorities have arrested a 19-year-old suspect in a Friday stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial.
Officials warn that Germany's federal elections on Sunday might be the last gasp of normalcy in the Bundenstag if establishment parties don't fulfill voters' expectations.
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