A protege of the late Wolfgang Schaeuble, finance minister and icon of German fiscal conservatism, Merz enjoyed a meteoric ...

Friedrich Merz faces complex coalition negotiations after the far-right AfD surged to a historic second place in a fractured ...

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

The Alternative for Germany party (AfD) emerged as the second-largest political force in Germany, securing around 20% of the ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces its biggest economic and diplomatic crises in decades and Europe looks ...

S&P Global’s flash U.S. Composite PMI Output Index, which gauges both manufacturing and services, dropped to 50.4 this month—its weakest level since September 2023 ...

DW News English coverage of the 2025 German Federal election, in English, no subtitles. SBS WorldWatch brings you the news as broadcast overseas. It may not reflect SBS standards and may contain ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, ...

Voters turned out in record numbers for the German election. Here’s a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats in ...

A far-right party has come second in a German national election for the first time since the Second World War.

Merz's Conservative alliance secured the highest votes in a high-stakes German elections held on Sunday, bringing him into ...