Friedrich Merz has a reputation for being tough on China, but the need to accommodate a coalition partner and headwinds from ...

Bavarian state Premier Markus Söder defended plans for massive debt-backed spending by Germany on infrastructure and defence ...

Compulsory military service should be reintroduced this year in Germany, a leading official of the party that won recent ...

As Germany's conservatives and Social Democrats (SPD) continue to hold exploratory talks about forming a coalition government ...

A week after a poor showing in Germany's federal elections, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left party has won more than 30% of the vote, according to preliminary official results.

Overall, the political shifts in Germany reflect a desire for change in a country that hasn’t been this politically engaged ...

Germany's conservative bloc has sparked tension with its potential coalition partner by launching an inquiry into state ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started ...

Germany’s 2025 election results mark a right-wing shift, reshaping European politics and US-EU relations. As CDU and AfD gain ...

Overseeing all these policy choices have been the CDU/CSU and SDP, which have led every German government since the Second ...

The conservative CDU led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's 2025 election. Here's a look at the wins and losses, seats in ...

One of the party’s most vocal supporters is Musk, the head of the American Department of Government Efficiency. Not only did ...