Germany's conservatives led by election winner Friedrich Merz held first talks Friday with the Social Democrats on forming a ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democrats, has ruled out a coalition with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

President Donald Trump has a plan to save Europe, and the results of Sunday’s election in Germany show it’s working. The center-right Christian Democrats won the most seats in the Bundestag, and the ...

AfD leader Alice Weidel accuses Germany's likely future chancellor Friedrich Merz of "election fraud." She says Merz promised to "close the borders" but did the opposite. Is that true?

Germany’s 2025 election results mark a right-wing shift, reshaping European politics and US-EU relations. As CDU and AfD gain ...

Should an AfD-led Germany withdraw from NATO, the alliance would surely collapse, as would an EU without Germany. Instead, a ...

Three times in the postwar era Germany made strategic choices that benefited Europe—with the US at its side. Now it must do ...

Friedrich Merz is in favor of boosting Europe’s military strength, standing against antisemites and by the Jewish state, and getting tougher on Iran.

Opposition to the status quo must not be monopolized by the right-wing extremist visions of parties like Alternative für ...

In Germany’s special election Sunday, seven months earlier than the normal date because the trio-run government collapsed, ...

One of the first acts of Chancellor-elect Friedrich Merz (Christian Democrat, CDU) after the election was to invite the right ...

A center-right chancellor should be good news for the GOP. Musk and Vance shouldn’t have meddled.