Voters who cast their ballots on February 23, 2025, did not directly elect the next German chancellor. Instead, they will elect politicians to the Bundestag, the lower house of German parliament.

Financial analysts became much more upbeat about Germany's economic prospects this month as the country's lawmakers closed in on an agreement to raise spending on defense and infrastructure. The ZEW ...

This article has been updated following the German vote on Sunday, 23 of February, 2024. Currently, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian ...

German citizens went to the polls this Sunday, taking part in snap federal elections in a vote that will shape the course of the EU's largest member state and its biggest economy for the next four ...

German citizens will vote twice: once for a local member of parliament and second for a party. A party must receive at least 5 percent of the national vote to enter the Bundestag, the elected ...

Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz emerged as the winner in Sunday’s election, but the results gave his bloc just one clear path to power with intense pressure to move quickly to ...

The German electoral authority confirmed the CDU's win in preliminary results, followed by the far-right AfD. The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) have gained the highest percentage of ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won the German election, defeating Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democrats. Merz says he wants to form a government within two months, saying he wants to ...

The AfD, despite being under surveillance by German domestic intelligence services for pursuing “goals that run against the human dignity of certain groups and against democracy,” has polled ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has posted an historic result, cementing its role as a major force in German politics. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has suffered a ...

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1225 GMT – Nuveen continues to favor German Bunds and expects 10-year yields to drop this year, says global investment strategist Laura Cooper in a note after Sunday’s elections. Nuveen sees ...