German nationals are heading to the ballots on February 23, with the country's current Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, down in ...

Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor ...

The deeper rot in German governance will require more fundamental reforms than any coalition is likely to deliver.

Christian Democratic Union likely to finish first and ask centre-left Social Democratic Party to form centrist alliance, ...

Only 15% of women identify Merz as the political leader best suited to become chancellor, compared to 21% of men. The only other candidate demonstrating a similar divide is Alice Weidel, leader of the ...

Germany holds its snap national election on Sunday following the collapse of Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition, and the ...

The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

German voters head to the polls in a winter election on Sunday, but may not have a new government for several months.

For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.

Sunday's vote is a pivotal moment for the Alternative for Germany party. It's polling high enough for second place as part of a far-right surge sweeping Europe.