The senior leadership of Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats were due to begin talks on hammering out ...

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

Voters put Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian ally, the CSU, in first place in February's election, consigning outgoing Chancellor Olaf ... premier of Bavaria, has ruled out ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is to be officially dismissed by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday after a new ...

Germany's presumptive next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said coalition negotiations between his conservative bloc and the Social Democrats (SPD) were focused on resolving major points of contention but ...

Merz's conservatives and Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD ... understand that from now on nothing in Germany can work without Bavaria," he said, using the name the Bavarians often give to ...

A week after a poor showing in Germany's federal elections, Chancellor Olaf ... Democrats and the Bavaria-only Christian Social Union (CSU) came out on top last week, with Scholz's SPD only ...

Germany's would-be next chancellor Friedrich Merz is asking lawmakers to allow the country to put "whatever it takes" into ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared in 2022 that Germany was undertaking a societal and political sea change on national security matters. The word he used for this sea change in thinking, ...