German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved the lower house of parliament, or Bundestag, on Friday in a widely ...

If polls are correct, Olaf Scholz’s successor could be the 69-year-old leader of the Christian Democratic Union. He is ...

STORY: President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved Germany's lower house of parliament to pave the way for snap elections on ...

The conservative leader’s attacks signal the next government may be just as discordant as the one that recently fell.

Opposition CDU and governing SPD offer starkly competing visions as they prepare to unveil election manifestos ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved parliament and set the country’s snap election for Feb. 23, formally ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire ex-corporate lawyer who ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor shares his party’s pro-EU and Atlanticist instincts, but also the country’s wider reluctance ...

Political instability in Germany and France, combined with the return of Donald Trump in 2025, threatens to undermine the ...

Friedrich Merz, an erstwhile rival of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has been a beacon of hope for the conservative CDU party. He now wants to unseat Chancellor Olaf Scholz and take over ...

Friedrich Merz is a longtime rival of Angela Merkel who has tried to move their party back to the right.