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BERLIN (AP) — Germany faces its second change of leader in fewer than four years after the head of the center-right opposition, Friedrich Merz, won Sunday’s election, which saw a surge for a far-right ...

BERLIN — Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats started exploratory talks Friday on a possible coalition government, but were ...

As astonishing as the electoral gains are for Germany’s far-right AfD party in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, they represent a defeat for the Republican Party in the U.S. The AfD doubled its vote ...

BERLIN - Just when they dared to dream of their first ever national election victory, Germany's Greens have been knocked off ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) came on top in Germany’s snap election Sunday, while the incumbent Social Democrats (SPD) ...

The German Greens on Sunday looked set to narrowly beat Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU in a regional election, projections showed, dealing the chancellor a blow ahead of elections this year as ...

Friedrich Merz is poised to become the next German chancellor after his conservative Christian Democratic Union placed first in Sunday’s key election. Social scientist David Bebnowski, speaking from ...