Deeply divided Germany elects conservative Merz chancellor, far right surges to second place
Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, crumbling international order and sluggish German economy face the incoming chancellor.
Right-wing Alternative for Germany scores second place in pivotal election, conservative set to to be next chancellor
Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, is on course for a stunning result in Sunday’s German election, with reports indicating one-in-five voters
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Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.
Friedrich Merz has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent's security as it grapples with the new Trump ...
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Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...
By Alden Bentley, Harry Robertson and Wayne Cole NEW YORK/LONDON/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Wall Street stumbled early on Monday after ...
Germany’s AfD party placed second in the 2025 election, fueled by immigration fears, despite its association with neo-Nazis.
Decades after the unification of Germany, the rise of extremist parties has divided the country once again, leaving the ...
The Alternative for Germany party, which achieved the best result in its history in the elections (20.8%), could have taken ...
Germany is at a crossroads and now for Friedrich Merz the hard work begins, writes Berlin correspondent Jessica Parker.
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
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