By James Mackenzie and Friederike Heine BERLIN, March 22 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative ...

The victory in Rhineland-Palatinate softens the blow after the Christian Democratic Union suffered a blistering defeat in a ...

By James Mackenzie and Friederike Heine BERLIN, March 22 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative ...

In Sunday's closely watched state election, both the far-right Alternative for Germany party and Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party, the Christian Democratic Union, made significant gains.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives are ahead in the Rhineland-Palatinate election, exit polls showed on Sunday, ...

Württemberg, ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU. The far-right AfD was the third strongest party, having made ...

The historic collapse of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) - the latest iteration of which came on Sunday in the south-western ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in fewer than four years. The latest result cements a shift to the right in Europe.

The first of five state elections this year is being seen as a barometer of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's popularity A survey ...

A series of five state elections and a wave of local contests across the country — what Germans are calling a “super election year” — is exposing the steady erosion of the traditional left-right ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Sunday's election in the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg was a "bitter" result for ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party has made a disappointing start to a year packed with German state elections, suffering a narrow defeat in an important industrial region after a prominent candidate ...