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

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 ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected Germany’s chancellor in a second round of parliamentary voting after his new alliance with the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD ...

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 ...

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 ...

After campaigning on promises of fiscal frugality, Mr. Merz reversed course post-election, joining with the Social Democrats and the center-left Green Party to relax government borrowing rules in ...

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 ...

Representatives for Germany's center-right ... is led by Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, and is joined by the center ...

The party is known by its German initialism, AfD, and it has included leaders who have embraced old Nazi slogans and ... Germany,” Musk posted on X, his social media site, in December.