The CDU/CSU received approximately 28.5% of votes in Sunday’s election, coming in close to the 30% support estimated ahead of the polls. This will put them in first place, but their victory is ...

All parties have ruled out forming a coalition with far-right AfD. Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option for ...

BERLIN — A conservative backlash is brewing in Germany, but the likely winners are working to make the transition palatable for all citizens. The Union parties — the Christian Democratic Union ...

The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) have gained the highest percentage of seats in the German election with 28.6%, the German electoral authority said in preliminary results.

Friedrich Merz from the opposition CDU is on track to be Germany’s next chancellor. Leaders of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) are gearing up to lead the country's next ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU conservative alliance has won Germany's general election with 28.6% of the vote, according to early results after vote counting concluded. At second place was the far ...

German voters go to the polls this Sunday to elect a new parliament, with Merz's centre-right CDU/CSU leading the polls at around 30%, ahead of far-right AfD at 20%. Due to the German “firewall ...

Euractiv Editor-in-Chief Matthew Karnitschnig says the CDU’s Friedrich Merz has indicated he is “not going to entertain” a coalition with the AfD following the German elections.

Talks between the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and Social Democrats (SPD) are to begin within the next couple of days, CDU leader Friedrich Merz announced during a press conference in Berlin ...

Friedrich Merz is likely to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party topped the vote in elections, exit polls project. The stuttering economy and immigration were major ...

Merz, the leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has already outlined three key topics that he aims to address in upcoming coalition negotiations: curbing migration, strengthening ...