An alliance between Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the center-left SPD is the only viable path to form a new government ...

Winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives need at least one coalition partner to govern and face potentially months of difficult ...

The outcome of the German election “has not resulted in a clear path to the constitution being changed to allow for a step ...

After more than three years with Chancellor Olaf Scholz at Germany’s helm, Sunday’s election cemented the country’s lurch to ...

Germany's conservative CDU/CSU bloc is questioning the political neutrality of some NGOs. That could weigh on relations with its potential Social Democrat coalition partners.

Germany's conservative bloc has sparked tension with its potential coalition partner by launching an inquiry into state ...

The CDU/CSU and SPD parties are conducting closed negotiations on the creation of a coalition government, but the question ...

Friedrich Merz aims to swiftly form government after his conservative bloc's February 23 election win. SPD leader Lars Klingbeil stressed a coalition with the CDU/CSU was "not automatic" amid key ...

Overseeing all these policy choices have been the CDU/CSU and SDP, which have led every German government since the Second ...

Donald Trump's administration appears to be intent on thawing relations with Moscow having offered favourable terms with ...

Germany's economy is in desperate need of foreign labor, but a political environment hostile to all kinds of immigrants makes ...

Alternative for Germany, the reformation party that sits to the right of the CDU/CSU's centrist conservatism, received ...