Provisional results show that Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has won the elections in ...

The victory in Rhineland-Palatinate softens the blow after the Christian Democratic Union suffered a blistering defeat in a ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in fewer than four years. The latest result cements a shift to the right in Europe.

By James Mackenzie BERLIN, March 23 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz promised on Monday to move quickly with ...

By James Mackenzie BERLIN, March 20 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives face their second electoral ...

The far-right party made big gains in its share of the vote in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

By James Mackenzie and Friederike Heine BERLIN, March 22 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative ...

Another test case for Germany:s government: Voters will go to the polls in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany's wine-growing region and home of Donald Trump's ancestors.

Senior members of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) on Monday rallied round the party's leadership after a bruising defeat in ...

German Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader Friedrich Merz and CDU top candidate for the Baden-Wuerttemberg state election, Manuel Hagel, attend a press conference after the ...

A series of five state elections and a wave of local contests across the country — what Germans are calling a “super election ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's centre-right CDU faces a regional election Sunday, the first of several this year in which it hopes to stem the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).