Germany’s conservatives are desperate to avoid a three-party coalition, but the outcome depends on how many small parties ...

Over the past decade and beyond, the CDU has undergone a significant identity shift under former Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The way they’re pardoning people who have been sentenced to years in prison, that will have consequences for America,” Merz ...

The CDU's candidate for chancellor Friedrich Merz has travelled to Kyiv.

In the run up to Germany’s snap general elections Jeremy Cliffe goes to Ludwigshafen, a symbol of Germany's economic woes.

These are dramatic days in the usually dull world of German politics. Last Wednesday, midway through a fiercely fought ...

Christian Democratic Union will neither enter coalition talks with the AfD nor form a minority government, ex-chairman Armin ...

The former German chancellor said it was not right to remain silent after her party, the conservative CDU, relied on votes ...