Germany’s Splintered Politics Complicates Coalition Building
Germany’s conservative Christian Democrat-led bloc secured 208 out of 630 seats in the lower house of parliament, meaning its ...
Germany's election: what happens now?
Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz wants to form a government quickly in order to revive a moribund economy, hike ...
German election: CDU/CSU bloc wins — preliminary results
CDU's Friedrich Merz has claimed victory while SPD's Olaf Scholz has regretted the "bitter" election result. The German ...
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CDU and SPD have already started talks
Election winner Friedrich Merz is pushing the pace. His CDU has already started talks with the SPD today, Tuesday. At a one-and-a-half hour meeting ...
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Merz begins work building coalition
Friedrich Merz has confirmed he hopes to form a coalition government featuring his Christian Democratic Union and the ...
Explainer-Germans Have Voted - What Happens Now?
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz wants to form a government quickly in order to revive a moribund ...
Germany: Is Merz’s win enough to secure a stable government?
The crucial question now is which coalition will help Friedrich Merz secure the Chancellorship, and how stable and enduring ...
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Germany’s Newly-Elected Conservative Party Would Rather Side With Socialists Than Other Right-Wingers
After Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won a plurality of seats in federal elections Sunday, party ...
Germany's Merz wants quick coalition formation to finance defense effort
The Christian Democrat, whose party won the parliamentary elections, quickly began negotiating with the Social Democrats to ...
Did Germany Really Lurch to the Right This Election? It’s Complicated.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came in second, doubling its result from last time. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) lost a lot, their coalition partner the Greens a ...
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'Friedrich Merz is the last post-war German politician for whom the EU is not a constraint but a conviction'
OP-ED. The likely future German chancellor may be a hard-line conservative, but he could well be the man to transform the country and revitalize Europe, writes international relations specialist ...
German election results and voter demographics explained in graphics
The conservative CDU led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's 2025 election. Here's a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats ...