Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian CSU sister party are topping polls for the election ...

A conservative backlash is brewing in Germany, but the likely winners are working to make the transition pragmatic and ...

The Sunday vote comes amid an economy in the doldrums, big questions over Europe's security posture, and a surging far-right.

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on ...

Merz faces challenges both from external factors and his own decisions, such as collaborating with the far-right Alternative ...

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

Germany's Christian Democratic Union, with its CSU sibling, leads pre-election polls. The CDU aims to cut bureaucracy, ...

Germans go to the polls on Sunday in a snap election called after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition. WHAT IS GERMANY'S HYBRID VOTING SYSTEM? Germany's reformed voting system ...

Germany will hold a snap national election on February 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition. Currently, the CDU/CSU leads in our polling aggregate by 9 ...

And unlike in the US, all campaign advertising, from billboards to radio and TV ads, is limited to a few weeks before the election in Germany. The CDU is reported to have the highest campaign ...

Thirty-five percent named the CDU/CSU, only 17% would like to see another SPD-led coalition, while 11% said they favor a government led by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and 9% favor ...