Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started exploratory talks on a possible coalition government ...

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The leader of AfD, the far-right Germany political party, has boldly claimed it will be the largest party in the country by ...

The leader of AfD, the far-right Germany political party, has boldly claimed it will be the largest party in the country by ...

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Friedrich Merz, leader of the CDU/CSU Christian Democrats and likely ... almost the only parts of the former East Germany which are not in thrall to the AfD is the capital Berlin and Leipzig.

Put simply, more than four in every five of Germany's 59.2 million voters turned out. It reflects just how energised Germans ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

Federal Election has exacerbated the political crisis in Germany and Europe. The result confronts workers and young people ...

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