The incoming German chancellor campaigned as a debt hawk. Then a source told him about Trump’s plans for NATO.

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Volker Ulrich was in no mood for the usual magnanimous pleasantries on election night in Augsburg. The Bavarian politician, candidate for the Christian Social Union, had just discovered that ...

Conservatives Clinch the German Election. Charlotte Lawson, Grayson Logue, James P. Sutton, ... (CDU) leader and chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz on election night, February 23, 2025.

German Chancellor Scholz's liberal party narrowly beat the country's largest far-right party in a regional election seen as a litmus test for where politics are headed in Europe's biggest economy.

Viewers watch a live broadcast of the US elections by the US broadcaster CNN at the "Election Night 2024" of the German-American Center Stuttgart.

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Merz said on election night that he hopes to form a government by Easter at the latest. ... “Take a look at the recent interventions in the German election campaign by Mr. Elon Musk. ...

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The election took place seven months earlier than originally planned after Scholz’s unpopular coalition collapsed in November, three years into a term that was increasingly marred by infighting.