A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

Parliamentarians of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have caused a political row in Germany by welcoming an apparent US initiative to repair and re-open the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic ...

Following an abysmal showing in federal elections, the Social Democrats will likely govern as junior partners to the ...

Germany's new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with a reduced headcount, fewer women and a record number of ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore up Ukraine’s sovereignty and defend Europe from Russia with or without the ...

Merz’s embrace of compromise with the SPD and the Greens (who are expected to play a role in the coalition) risks being seen ...

The senior leadership of Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats were due to begin talks on hammering out ...

CDU politician Julia Klöckner is the new president of the German parliament. She is seen as a controversial choice by many, ...

CDU politician Julia Klöckner is the new President of the German Bundestag. At the constituent session of the national ...

The center-right CDU/CSU and the center-left SPD are set ... government together before — most recently under Chancellor Angela Merkel until 2021. So, they have a lot of common ground, but ...

BERLIN - The senior leadership of Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats were due to begin talks on ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her coalition government will ... behind Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Greens, in the European elections. She had been criticized by the ...