Angela Merkel didn’t just win Germany’s Sept. 22 parliamentary elections — she triumphed. Her Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, emerged strengthened ...

BERLIN — The center-left Social Democrats have won the biggest share of the vote in Germany's national election. They narrowly beat outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Union bloc in a ...

After years of turmoil within the party and the electorate over her disputed decision to keep the border open to more than one million asylum seekers, Merkel has said she will leave politics when her ...

BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel took a step closer to political retirement Tuesday after receiving her formal dismissal certificate from the post of chancellor after 16 years in office, though she will ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's conservative Christian Democrats will focus their TV advertising campaign on Chancellor Angela Merkel while the opposition Social Democrats put ordinary people in their ...

Exit polls from Germany show Chancellor Angela Merkel winning another term, but her party did not do as well as expected — and a right-wing... Angela Merkel Wins German Election, But Right-Wing Party ...

(AP) Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party is riding high as Germany enters its election year, enjoying its highest support since Merkel became the country’s leader in 2005 while her ...

BERLIN – Undecided voters may tip Sunday’s German election, a contest between competing visions over how to re-energize the stagnant economy and repair Berlin’s battered ties with Washington. Polls ...

The inconclusive outcome of Germany’s September 26 federal election will likely mean lengthy talks on forming a new government coalition, and it is currently unclear who will succeed Angela Merkel as ...

In accepting her party’s nomination for a fourth term in office, German chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a speech that took aim at conservative critics of her liberal asylum policies, yet also ...