New elections for the Bundestag in Germany will be held on February 23, 2025. However, Olaf Scholz's chances of being ...

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

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

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

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz took another step toward becoming German chancellor on Monday — while launching some scathing attacks ...

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

German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz on Tuesday said the Greens are shifting to the left and becoming an ...

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

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

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

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