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

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

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 today, with the conservatives the strong favourites after a campaign rocked by a far-right ...

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

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

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

The contenders in Germany’s election made their final appeals to voters Saturday, with opposition leader and front-runner ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz said on Thursday the U.S. was at risk of sliding into longer-term authoritarian ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

Germany’s probable next leader talks about Ukraine, saving the economy and beating the AfD in an exclusive interview ...

We are now a few days away from the German general election (February 23), which is becoming even more significant in the ...