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

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 ...

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 ...

The reason for stiffing the AfD on real estate is the usual threat of fascism. The SPD has nicknamed its large hall Otto Weis ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...