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 ...

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 ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has affirmed the unity of his coalition government, comprising the Christian Democratic ...

The SPD manifesto is aimed at defusing the growing outrage over the party's militaristic course, which resulted in its ...

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 ...

A senior member of Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) has called for tighter migration controls and welcomed ...

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) approved a coalition agreement with the CDU/CSU conservatives, two sources close to the party said on Wednesday, clearing the last hurdle for the formation of a ...

The Social Democratic Party's Lars Klingbeil has been tapped to become Germany's next finance minister in the incoming centrist coalition government, replacing Joerg Kukies, the party announced.

Despite calls from coalition partner Social Democrats to engage in dialogue with Russia, Wadephul says ‘no possibility’ under ...

People who are ordered to be detained pending deportation will no longer be provided with state-appointed lawyer - Anadolu ...

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 ...