Incumbent Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democrats did well enough in their election victory Sunday that they will be able to switch coalition partners and form a new center-right ...

Angela Merkel’s conservatives could lose the Sept. 26 election to a resurgent center-left energized by a new approach: imitating Angela Merkel. Less than three weeks before the vote, polls show ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has congratulated conservative leader Friedrich Merz on his victory in Sunday's parliamentary election. A spokeswoman for Merkel told the Funke media group ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives are on course to win a historic absolute majority in Sunday’s election, according to a projection based on exit polls and some results from ...

BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel, running for re-election next month, says she won't avoid eastern Germany despite encountering renewed public heckling at a campaign rally there.

Early exit polls cited by multiple outlets project the CDU—the party of former Chancellor Angela Merkel—is expected to get the highest share of votes in this election, likely positioning its ...

A “deportations terminal” is to be built at Munich Airport to speed up the removal of illegal migrants from Germany.

BERLIN (AP) — Alternative for Germany surged to the best showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday's national election and became the strongest political force in parts of the ...

After the 2017 election, it was nearly six months before lawmakers elected then-Chancellor Angela Merkel for her fourth and final term. newsday-tv-logo Streaming Now ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party's iconic leader.