Germany's conservative leader and would-be next chancellor Friedrich Merz has agreed what amounts to a fiscal policy ...

Bruising times for center-left parties have U.K. Labour looking abroad — and trying to dodge the same pitfalls.

The prospective partners in Germany’s next government say they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to ...

Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party likely, but the rise of the far-right AfD party and its ...

All EU member states must do more for defense. This is one of the central tasks at the national and European level for the ...

Chancellor Scholz says European leaders discussed diplomatic pathways, as well as reaffirmed their support for Ukraine during ...

The CDU/CSU and SPD parties are conducting closed negotiations on the creation of a coalition government, but the question ...

Outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on X that “we mourn ... A 24-year-old Afghan man who came to Germany as an asylum-seeker was arrested, and prosecutors said he appeared to have an Islamic ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that a halt in fighting could be a starting point for potential peace talks for ...

Germany’s “Great Coalitions” are getting smaller. In the (then West German) Federal Republic in the 1980s, the centrist major parties gathered over 85% of the vote between them. In 2025, the former ...

Center-right election winner Friedrich Merz, who is trying to form a coalition government with the center-left Social ...