Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

The conservative CDU/CSU bloc emerged as the winner of Sunday's parliamentary elections in Germany, securing 28.6% of the ...

Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, ...

Friedrich Merz is on track to become Germany’s next chancellor, with his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and its ...

Friedrich Merz from the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is on track to be Germany’s next chancellor.

Paul Hockenos is a journalist and author based in Berlin. His most recent book is “Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, ...

The conservative CDU/CSU party has won the parliamentary elections in Germany. The leader of the formation, Friedrich Merz, ...

And of those, there's a sizable subset who don't believe that the CDU will solve this issue for them, because in their eyes, the Merkel CDU created the problem back in 2025, and hasn't done enough ...

He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and ...

With Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU union coming on top of the election, coalition talks will come next. Merz seemed keen to get to ...

However, it remains highly unlikely Merz will go to AfD to form a coalition. Under Merkel, the CDU, a traditionally center-right party, leaned more into centrist positions and politics ...