Germany needs a new government fast. The center-right and center-left are set to hammer out an agreement by Easter, but there are several sticking points.

Friedrich Merz has a reputation for being tough on China, but the need to accommodate a coalition partner and headwinds from ...

German postal voting slips shown in online videos to have omitted the far-right candidate in a Leipzig constituency are fake, ...

The surge followed an agreement led by Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz that would largely exempt defence spending from ...

"Whatever it takes" appears to be the motto of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, who are expected to form Germany's new government. They are set to reform borrowing limits to allow for ...

Germany is the latest European country to shift to the right, following last weekend’s elections.  Economic decline is a big ...

By Satyaki Chakraborty The polarization in German politics widened after national elections on Sunday, February 23 in which ...

The recent election in Germany showed that trade unions are no longer an overtly progressive force nor are they a safeguard ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that his centre-right CDU/CSU and the centre-left Social ...

Still, borrowing of the planned scale would have a significant impact. Moody's, a rating agency, estimates that Germany's deficit would widen by up to 2.5% of GDP (still below the EU average). The ...

In a meeting of EU ambassadors on Wednesday, the German delegation argued that while the Commission’s move was a positive ...