After being passed over for a ministerial post in Germany’s new grand-coalition government, it was clear that Saskia Esken’s time as a leading face of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) was approaching ...

Lars Klingbeil, Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) parliamentary group and federal chairman, speaks during a press conference after his party's executive committee meeting. Kay Nietfeld/dpa ...

The party ended up with the worst result since the party was named the “Social Democratic Party of Germany” in 1890 and was pushed into third place by the far-right AfD with almost 21 percent ...

Schuetze The Alternative for Germany party was on course to win in Thuringia ... Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose Social Democrats have been a target, denounced the attacks as a threat to democracy.

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 ...