Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is poised to lead a coalition government from next week after his junior ...

The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz will join a coalition led by Mr Merz’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), which ...

The parliament will meet May 6 to elect Merz, who will need a majority of all members of the lower house to be elected as ...

Germany’s center-left Social Democrats have voted to approve a coalition agreement. The vote’s results were announced ...

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday are set to reveal the result of a membership vote on a coalition deal with the ...

Germany's Social Democrats will announce on Wednesday whether members have backed a treaty for a coalition with the CDU/CSU ...

The nominations from the CDU and CSU show that the shift to the right that is taking place in the US under Donald Trump is ...

Just months after Vice President J.D. Vance admonished European officials for censoring citizens, a new German governing ...

Germany's Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Monday named utility executive Katherina Reiche as his likely economy ...

Germany's incoming conservative leader Friedrich Merz pledged a spirited defence of Ukraine and of democratic values Monday ...

Friedrich Merz, due to be sworn in as leader next month ... after the far-Right anti-migrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) came second in February’s elections. Tensions over migration also ...

Germany's next leader, the conservative Friedrich Merz ... the pressure is coming from the AfD, the pressure is coming from (Merz's) own ranks," he told news channel NTV. The far-right Alternative ...