The conservative CDU led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's 2025 election. With vote counting finished, preliminary results show ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came in second, doubling its result from last time. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) lost a lot, their coalition partner the Greens a ...

We sought to seed the accounts with an equal interest in Germany’s four major parties – the Christian Democrats (CDU), ...

With domestic problems and foreign policy crises looming large, the pressure is on to form a new government in Berlin. View ...

The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the CSU, led with 28.6% of the vote, while the AfD came in second with 20.8%, more than doubling its previous share. CDU leader ...

Friedrich Merz previously held the position of the chairman of the united CDU/CSU faction during the last legislative period from 2000 to 2002 ...

The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to ...

Tesla Inc.’s sales plunged 45% last month across Europe, where rival carmakers saw a surge in electric-vehicle demand.

Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz wants to form a government quickly in order to revive a moribund economy, hike ...

Tesla’s sales in Europe plunged 45% in January, as competition rises and backlash grows over Elon Musk’s political activism.

President Donald Trump has a plan to save Europe, and the results of Sunday's election in Germany show it's working. The ...

After more than three years with Chancellor Olaf Scholz at Germany’s helm, Sunday’s election cemented the country’s lurch to ...