Merz made his first key move on March 18 in the Bundestag, followed by a second on March 21 in the Bundesrat. Both moves ...

A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

Germany's new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with a reduced headcount, fewer women and a record number of ...

Merz’s embrace of compromise with the SPD and the Greens (who are expected to play a role in the coalition) risks being seen ...

Parliamentarians of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have caused a political row in Germany by welcoming an apparent US initiative to repair and re-open the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic ...

The center-right CDU/CSU and the center-left SPD are set ... government together before — most recently under Chancellor Angela Merkel until 2021. So, they have a lot of common ground, but ...

The senior leadership of Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats were due to begin talks on hammering out ...

CDU politician Julia Klöckner is the new President of the German Bundestag. At the constituent session of the national ...

Following an abysmal showing in federal elections, the Social Democrats will likely govern as junior partners to the ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her coalition government will ... behind Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Greens, in the European elections. She had been criticized by the ...

Trained as a journalist, Klöckner led the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in her home state from 2010 to 2022, during which ...

instituted by former CDU chancellor Angela Merkel to formally restrain government borrowing. There is broad public approval of higher spending on the armed forces and defence, arising from the ...