The Christian Social Union (CSU) leader Markus Soeder (1st L), the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz ...

CSU leader Markus Soeder, CDU leader Friedrich Merz and SPD leader Lars Klingbeil stand with the new ministers after signing ...

TOM KREBS is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, member of the German Minimum Wage Commission, and former ...

She left parliament before the second vote, in a possible sign of disapproval towards the CDU’s current leader. It remains unclear why Mr Merz failed in the first secret ballot — where he was ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday pledged reforms and investment for Europe's biggest economy to transform it ...

Greens urge review of gun laws for members of 'extremist' AfD, Union calls for end of 'firewall' against the Left Party, long ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is expected in Brussels on Monday to take part in a ceremony celebrating the accession of (West) Germany to the NATO military alliance on May 6, 1955 ...

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) backed a coalition deal with the CDU/CSU conservatives on Wednesday in the final step to ...

Days before a new government was due to be sworn in, German authorities classified the country's populist, far-right ...

leader of the CDU, as chancellor on Tuesday. Once Merz is elected, his government will take office, ending the current administration led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and SPD's co-leader Lars ...

Merz' appointment ends six months of political deadlock in the country after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ...