Merz’s priority will be to form a government with the third-placed Social Democrats (SPD), led by Germany’s current ...

Mapped: The German election results after far right AfD sees surge in support in the East - The conservative alliance led by ...

Incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz is working overtime to warn Germans that the time of stagnation that prevailed under the former chancellor Olaf Scholz must come to an end.

Markus Söder, the boss of Bavaria's centre-right Christian Social Union (CSU), claimed a share of the credit for the ...