- Election posters showing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and CDU top candidate for chancellor Friedrich Merz in ...

Come Sunday (February 23), will the voting gods smile on Friedrich Merz? The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is the ...

When Donald Trump won the US election in November, Germany’s government imploded. Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces its biggest economic and diplomatic ...

The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday's snap ...

Triggered after the breakdown of the coalition led by Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the campaign for the February ...

Two days before the vote, Scholz said the question of whether Berlin would be prepared to send German soldiers to support any ...

EXCLUSIVE: 'Sparks could fly' between Donald Trump and Friedrich Merz, who is tipped to be Germany's next Chancellor, an expert says.

Germany is voting on February 23 in a snap election to elect a new government. From the main parties to who could be the next chancellor, we answer all your questions ...

German voters head to the polls in a winter election on Sunday, but may not have a new government for several months.

Regardless of the outcome, today's German election marks a rejection of the centrist political establishment and a shift to ...

Germany holds its snap national election on Sunday following the collapse of Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition, and the ...