Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats have approved ... leader Friedrich Merz as the country’s new chancellor. The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz will join a coalition led by ...

Conservative and centre-left parties will present a deal to form a new German government on Wednesday after weeks of negotiations. The agreement paves the way for new leadership in Europe’s ...

Merz, 69, who led his CDU/CSU conservatives to a federal election victory in February and signed a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats ... vowing to reform Germany. But both parties ...

although the AfD is not currently in the national government – and remains unlikely to be accepted as a coalition partner by the victorious centre-right CDU – German political parties "are ...

Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats have approved a deal to join a new coalition government, paving the way for parliament to elect conservative leader Friedrich Merz as the country’s new ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Conservative and centre-left parties will present a deal to form a new German government on Wednesday after weeks of negotiations.

Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor of the Social Democratic Party, left, and Friedrich Merz ... File) Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats have approved a deal to join a new coalition government ...