Deputy Chancellor Robert Habeck has pressed charges against a man who posted a picture of him with a derogatory caption online. Investigators also accuse the suspect of publishing Nazi images and ...

The collapse of Germany’s ’traffic light’ coalition government headed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown the focus on ...

The coalition could not agree how to fund new support for Ukraine and failed to fully implement the ‘Zeitenwende’. A new ...

Germany is heading for snap elections. Until then, Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to continue heading a minority government of his Social Democrats and the Greens. Will it work?

The three-year-old union between Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens and Lindner’s Free Democratic Party (FDP) has been on shaky ground for some time.

Joerg Kukies, Germany's new finance minister, is a former investment banker who has long been one of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire former corporate lawyer who promises a return to his CDU party's conservative roots as an alternative ...

The man at the heart of the dramatic collapse of Germany's fractious ruling coalition, Finance Minister Christian Lindner, had long signalled his unhappiness with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government.

After taking the FDP leadership, a fresh-faced Lindner set about getting rid of the party’s musty “retirement home smell”, as Spiegel put it, dispelling its image as a talking shop for old men. German ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a rare phone conversation, focusing on prospects for ending the war in Ukraine. Initiated by Scholz, the hour-long call marked ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz is determined to use his last weeks in office with a minority government to pass what he believes are ...