Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz and his conservatives slump in poll after far-right backing for migration vote.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday said it was important not to divide the world with new trade barriers, as everyone ...

Polls show conservative leader Friedrich Merz’s Union leading ahead of the Feb. 23 election with around 30% support, while ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday said it was important not to divide the world with new trade barriers, as everyone ...

BERLIN — With Germany’s election less than a month away, center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown cold water on the prospect of reviving the country’s traditional grand coalition — bluntly ...

Election posters at a street in Duesseldorf, Germany, show the top candidates for chancellor, Robert Habeck of the Green Party, Friedrich Merz of the CDU and Olaf Scholz for the SPD, from left, prior ...

Germany's conservatives doubled down Friday on allowing the far-right AfD to back their pre-election push to restrict ...

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) listens to Friedrich Merz (R), Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and parliamentary group leader of the CDU/Christian Social Union in ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner ... a snap election he thought he had in the bag. Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats sat back quietly, taking it in.

Germany’s center-left governing parties have cast doubt on whether conservative leader Friedrich Merz can ... But Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Merz made “an inexcusable mistake.” ...

(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, listens to the speech of Friedrich Merz, German opposition leader and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party ...

Two German parties, the AfD and CDU, find common ground on asylum seeker crisis. Does this signal a possible coalition government of the two?