BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party scored a clear victory Sunday in the small state of Saarland, dashing hopes among her center-left contenders that the election would ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party easily won elections in the western state of Saarland ... Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union took more than 40 percent to about 30 percent for the ...

The real winners were the upstart Pirate Party ... on Sunday came from people who did not vote in previous elections. Jasmin Maurer, top candidate for the Pirates in Saarland, is seen after ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party has comfortably won ... Bordering France and Luxembourg, Saarland is home to less than one million people, a fraction of Germany’s 80-million strong ...