Markus Söder, the boss of Bavaria's centre-right Christian Social Union (CSU), claimed a share of the credit for the nationwide election victory on Sunday by the conservative bloc made up of his CSU ...

Friedrich Merz, Chairman and candidate for chancellor of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), speaks alongside Markus Soeder, Minister President of Bavaria and Christian Social Union chairman at the ...

Polls opened at 8 a.m. (0700 UTC) and closed at 6 p.m. Latest projections put CDU/CSU at 29%, the right-wing populist AfD at around 19.5%, and Chancellor Scholz's SPD at 16% The AfD is shunned by ...

Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz is set to start talks to form a new coalition Merz reiterated his stance on not cooperating with the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD ...

Germany’s conservative Christian Democrat-led bloc secured 208 out of 630 seats in the lower house of parliament, meaning its leader, Friedrich Merz, will have to navigate complicated coalition ...

PRAGUE -- The headlines indicate that the far-right AfD party had its best-ever result in the German parliamentary elections, finishing second with some 20 percent of the vote, nearly doubling the ...

Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU), its more openly right-wing Bavarian affiliate, announced the names of their ministers in the incoming federal ...

BERLIN — The Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, have few options in front of them to form a government after taking first place in the German ...

Germany's Centre Right Alliance (CDU/CSU) managed to secure the most seats in the country's parliamentary election on Sunday, suggesting a more innovation-friendly environment awaits. Friedrich Merz's ...

An alliance between Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the center-left SPD is the only viable path to form a new government for Germany. While the parties are bitter rivals, they have cooperated in ...