Incoming Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz has a heavy lift: shake Europe’s economic engine out of stagnation. Markets are ...

Germany’s economy had stalled. In 2024, German GDP was 0.2 percent lower than in the previous year, and forecasts for 2025 ...

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...

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While polling suggests Germany's far-right AfD party will fare well, it's very unlikely to be part of the next government of ...

Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election​, while far ...

German voters cast their ballots in Sunday’s election , with opposition leader Friedrich Merz claiming victory and Chancellor ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.