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

Friedrich Merz receives 325 votes in the second round of voting, hours after a shock defeat in the first ballot.

Germany’s domestic intelligence service has designated the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a “right-wing extremist” group, with the incoming government considering a ban, and the United States ...

Vice chancellor, finance minister, co-leader of Germany's oldest party ... Klingbeil started building his network within the Social Democratic Party. From 2001 to 2003, he worked in Chancellor ...

Thus, the 69-year-old Merz becomes the ... the new composition of the German government is also expected to be approved. The leaders of the Christian Democratic and Christian Social Union and the ...

The domestic intelligence service of Germany last week labeled “extremist ... the center-left Social Democratic Party, and the center-right Christian Democratic Union, the latest polls ...

The 60-year-old Wolfram ... The Social Democratic Party's (SPD) Matthias Miersch is set to lead the center-left party's parliamentary group, media reports suggested on Monday. Germany's state ...

While resolutions and speeches were not short on radical rhetoric aimed at appealing to radicalised young people and workers, ...

Seven hours late, the short ceremony in the Bundestag parliament chamber ended a long and dramatic day for the 69-year-old ... Social Democratic Party. Merz was already on track to be Germany ...

Schuetze Melissa Eddy and Clay Risen Friedrich Merz won a second-chance vote to become Germany ... Merz and his party. Tuesday’s vote was anonymous, so it is unclear how many Social Democrats ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz will be German chancellor after ... The 69-year-old now takes the helm of a fragile coalition consisting of his conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democratic Party ...

As Germany marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the Nazi regime, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned that far-right populists were reviving “old, evil spirits”. Days earlier ...