After being passed over for a ministerial post in Germany’s new grand-coalition government, it was clear that Saskia Esken’s ...

The coalition negotiations between the social democratic SPD and conservative right CDU/CSU are going surprisingly smoothly, almost harmoniously. Lars Klingbeil, co-chairman of the SPD, explains ...

That would signal to Russia and the West that Germany is taking seriously its security obligations ... individuals,” to win the support of the noble comrades in the Social Democratic Party. With the ...

The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholtz ... with 328 of the Bundestag’s 630 seats. The Union and Social Democrats have governed Germany together before: once in the 1960s, and then in ...

Three leading German economists expect growth in 2026 if the new coalition government’s ambitious multibillion-dollar ...

New changes in immigration laws, which have to be approved by parliament, will mainly affect people with so-called subsidiary ...

If the deal is approved by the CDU and by grassroots members of the Social Democrats it will clear ... well as the rise of the far-right AfD party in Germany put pressure on the CDU and the ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged U.S. officials to refrain from interfering in his country’s politics in an ...

In sync with the German cherry blossom, the new coalition of CDU/CSU (conservative) and SPD (social democrats) published their coalition agreement ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conservative leader Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in becoming Germany’s next chancellor, drawing applause and a palpable sense of relief in the parliament chamber after a historic ...