Germany’s likely next chancellor on Thursday urged outgoing members of parliament to exempt some defense spending from the ...

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CDU representative Christian Hirte employed a Russian national with ties to the FSB, reported the "Frankfurter Allgemeine ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, and Social Democratic Party leader Lars Klingbeil talk during a meeting of the German ...

A senior Greens legislator said there would still be a sufficient, albeit different, majority to reform Germany's debt brake ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has lodged urgent legal motions with the constitutional court challenging plans ...

At least 59.2 million people in a country of 84 million are eligible to vote for the new Bundestag, or lower house of parliament. It is the 630-member Bundestag that will elect the next chancellor ...

Germany is the most populous country in the 27-nation European Union and a leading member of NATO. It has been Ukraine's biggest second-weapons supplier, after the U.S. It will be central to shaping ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, right, and Social Democratic Party leader Lars Klingbeil talk ...

The appeals, lodged by several opposition AfD lawmakers, seek to prevent the sitting on Thursday, when the Bundestag parliament would consider constitutional changes to allow a massive spending ...