With all votes counted, the centre-right Christian Democratic Union has claimed victory, while minnows, including the ...

The final results spare the CDU from having to negotiate a three-party coalition with the Greens to leave out the far-right ...

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Germany's mainstream conservatives won the country's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation's second-largest party, according to provisional results following Sunday's ...

Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option ...

As was widely predicted, Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has won Germany’s federal elections with around 28 ...

After two torturous months of campaigning, the wait is over. Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative CDU party, is on ...

A long-time rival of centrist ex-chancellor Angela Merkel within the CDU party, Merz has attacked her open-door migrant policy and drawn her ire for accepting support from the far-right AfD on the ...

Former tánaiste Michael McDowell is being lined up as a Government-backed replacement for Michael D Higgins in the Áras.

The Albanese government has appointed four more union-aligned officials to the workplace tribunal as it gears up for the ...

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The euro jumped to a one-month high and stock futures charged ahead on Monday after Germany's conservatives won the national ...