Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s chancellor in a CDU-led government, has extensive experience as a lawyer ...

The margin of error for individual polls is estimated from the poll’s sample size and the number of eligible German voters ...

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

Germans will greet the next government with the stoniest of scepticism. Thorsten Faas, a political scientist at the Free ...

The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian "sister party" Christian Social Union (CSU) have slightly ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz said on Thursday the U.S. was at risk of sliding into longer-term authoritarian ...

Heated rhetoric and divisive questions raise concerns about the fragility of democracy amid US-style politics.

Lesen Sie diesen Artikel auf Deutsch ► With 735 seats, Germany’s Bundestag is the largest elected parliament in the world. It ...

PETER SPARDING is Senior Vice President and Director of Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and ...

German voters go to the polls this Sunday to elect a new parliament, with Merz's centre-right CDU/CSU leading the polls at ...

Germany will hold general parliamentary elections. One of the campaign issues is the continuing housing shortage as one of ...