German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talks with SPD co-leader Lars Klingbeil ... s conservative Christian Democratic Union, next to Bavaria’s State Premier and Leader of the conservative Christian ...

Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is asking lawmakers to allow the country to put “whatever it takes” into ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started exploratory talks on a possible coalition government.

CDU's Freiderich Merz, frontrunner for chancellor, has promised a ‘much tougher stance’ than the one Germany has been following in recent decades.

European weapons manufacturers from ThyssenKrupp to BAE Systems and smaller drone makers stand to gain the most from ...

German politicians made a final scramble for votes Saturday on the eve of crucial elections in which conservatives are favoured to win despite the dramatic rise of the far right. "Tomorrow we will ...

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 ...

chancellor Olaf Scholz. The unpopular 66-year-old chancellor is on his way out of politics. Yet his party, despite its worst federal election result, may have another chance at power under the ...