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

Europe is fortunate to have sensible men leading the UK, Poland and France: Keir Starmer, Donald Tusk and Emmanuel Macron.

The leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a top contender for the chancellorship, Merz is playing a ...

Germany was already in bad standing with Trump while Angela Merkel was Chancellor — not least because of her open refugee ...

The class of lawmakers taking office is noticeably more male and less diverse than the constituents it will represent.

(Bloomberg) — Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz plans to free Germany from the fiscal straitjacket that former leader Angela Merkel had locked her country into for more than a decade, a move that ...

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

BERLIN — Germany's new parliament on Tuesday elected as its speaker a conservative former minister, who called for civilized ...

The senior leadership of Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats were due to begin talks on hammering out a coalition agreement on Friday. Here are the main issues: HOW DID WE GET ...

Merz won the vote on the relevant law by 513 to 207 ... The debt brake, enshrined in the constitution, was brought in by ...

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

(Bloomberg) -- Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz plans to free Germany from the fiscal straitjacket that former leader Angela Merkel had locked her country into for more than a decade, a move ...