Germany's Christian Democratic Union taps Friedrich Merz as its candidate for chancellor in next national election ...

Germany’s opposition center-right Christian Democratic Union has chosen its leader Friedrich Merz to be its candidate for ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Christian Democratic Union taps Friedrich Merz as its candidate for chancellor in next national election.

The country’s next president will need a friendly Congress to make their policy dreams a reality, but control of the two ...

The conservative allied Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union parties are set to choose their candidate for ...

German Christian Democratic Union Chairman Friedrich Merz secured the conservative candidacy to challenge Olaf Scholz for the ...

Polls predict more success for the far-right AfD party in Brandenburg; weeks ago the party made massive gains in Thuringia and Saxony state elections.

“We are practically no longer concerned at all, or only very little, with what comes from this coalition,” Friedrich Merz ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, had a very successful night in two states, despite its state chapters’ ...

Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is preparing to govern the country, leaders said on Thursday, with only one year to go until parliamentary elections. The centre-right party has been in ...

Germany’s far right is on course to win the most votes in a state election for the first time since the Nazi era, in a major ...

Germany is particularly sensitive to the strength of its far right. Its modern democratic structures were developed in the ...