The Social Democrats were once a "big tent" party, with the support of almost half of Germany's electorate. This year, five ...

Württemberg, ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU. The far-right AfD was the third strongest party, having made ...

By James Mackenzie BERLIN, March 8 (Reuters) - Germany's environmental Greens took a narrow lead over Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives in a state election in the southwestern region of ...

The first of five state elections this year is being seen as a barometer of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's popularity A survey ...

The most striking result of the Baden-Württemberg state election on Sunday is the collapse of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The party of Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil and Federal Labour Minister ...

Jana Schimke, a former CDU member of the Bundestag from Brandenburg and now head of Germany’s hotel and restaurant association, belongs to the party’s conservative wing, which long bristled at ...

Conservative and centre-left parties in Germany have reached a deal to form a new government after weeks of negotiations, paving the way for new leadership in Europe's biggest economy after months of ...

BERLIN — The Christian Democratic Union and the allied Christian Social Union secured the largest share of votes in the German federal election on Sunday, according to exit polls from German ...

The conservative Christian Democratic Union party, led by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, pushed on Saturday for lawmakers to reverse the country's nearly two-year-old law legalizing some cannabis use.

A coalition deal in Germany has paved the way for conservative leader Friedrich Merz to become the country's 10th chancellor since World War II. As part of the deal, outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ...

Property owners should be allowed to continue installing oil and gas heating systems in their homes, the German coalition ...