“This really is democracy’s last bullet,” said CSU leader Markus Söder. While he was referring to the threat from the far right if the coalition fails, Germany in 2025 has a long list of dangers to ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a picture of her and Friedrich Merz as she speaks during her appearance as a guest on Deutschlandfunk's live radio show "Studio 9" at the Humboldt Forum.

German conservatives under Friedrich Merz clinched a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, ...

“But there was one problem, right from the start: We both wanted to be the boss,” she said. Merkel moved to consolidate her ...

Germany had a federal coalition government made up of the same parties between 2013 and 2021 under the leadership of former Chancellor Angela Merkel - just before the most recent traffic-light ...

Asked about the findings, Lisa Nandy primarily blamed Brexit for the issues and said the Labour government is “taking the right approach” and “striking the right balance” when it comes to ...

Speaking during a news conference, Merz laid out a vision of a Germany restored to its former strength and reliability. “The future government, the future coalition, will reform and invest to ...

Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Hannes P Albert In their new coalition pact unveiled on Wednesday, Germany's CDU/CSU and SPD say they will end the three-year track for citizenship applicants with ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the leaders of Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) reached a swift coalition agreement on Wednesday. The deal came amid intense pressure on ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader, Angela Merkel ...