The next German government faces calls to loosen borrowing rules, slash energy costs and spur innovation. It won’t be easy.

F RIEDRICH MERZ, who is likely to become Germany’s next chancellor, used his victory in Sunday’s elections to issue a ...

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 Christian Democrats win the country's election. Their leader, expected next Chancellor Friedrich Merz, says the ...

Mohammad Azmouz, a Syrian barber living in Berlin, said casting his first ever vote on Sunday at the age of 57 was an ...

All three parties in the former governing coalition lost seats, with the centre-left Social Democrats falling to 120 seats, the Greens to 85 and the Liberal Party losing all its seats. While the Left ...

Friedrich Merz said that Europe needed to “achieve independence from the United States, step by step.” That won’t be easy, for Europe or for the United States.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk speaks live via a video transmission during the election campaign launch rally of the far-right Alternative for Germany party on January 25, 2025, in Halle, Germany. In the ...