The government in Berlin is under pressure to get major reforms underway. But Merz's coalition partner, the SPD, stands severely weakened following two defeats in state elections, and now finds it ...

Friedrich Merz (L), Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag, speaks next to Markus Soeder, Minister President of Bavaria and chairman ...

The CDU and CSU group in the European Parliament has pushed ahead with a legislative project to tighten EU asylum policy with ...

Markus Söder, the boss of Bavaria's centre-right Christian Social Union (CSU), claimed a share of the credit for the nationwide election victory on Sunday by the conservative bloc made up of his CSU ...

In a significant political shift, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU emerged victorious over the SPD in ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz, likely to be vows coalition govt will 'move our country forward again' Talks between the conservatives and the Social Democrats resumed after long, and ...

Friedrich Merz, the Christian Democratic Union's candidate for chancellor, has not shied away from blasting Olaf Scholz's economic policies and linking them to the lackluster state of Europe's biggest ...