German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her coalition government will ... behind Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Greens, in the European elections. She had been criticized by the ...

A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

Following an abysmal showing in federal elections, the Social Democrats will likely govern as junior partners to the ...

The leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a top contender for the chancellorship, Merz is playing a ...

The senior leadership of Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats were due to begin talks on hammering out a coalition agreement on Friday. Here are the main issues: HOW DID WE GET ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore up Ukraine’s sovereignty and defend Europe from Russia with or without the ...

Trained as a journalist, Klöckner led the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in her home state from 2010 to 2022, during which ...

Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany and has been since 2005. Merkel is the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and entered politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Collective bargaining in the German public sector has again demonstrated that the working class is facing a political ...

Germany's new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with a reduced headcount, fewer women and a record number of ...

Germany's new parliament on Tuesday elected as its speaker a conservative former minister, who called for civilized debate in ...