The SPD manifesto is aimed at defusing the growing outrage over the party's militaristic course, which resulted in its ...

The Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), a pro-free market, anti-EU, anti-mass migration party, placed second in Germany’s recent parliamentary elections, earning nearly 21 percent of the vote to the ...

whose party won the February elections, was set to be chosen as Germany's chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz. Separately Monday, Merz's conservative movement, known as the CDU/CSU, and Scholz's ...

CSU leader Markus Soeder, CDU leader Friedrich Merz and SPD leader Lars Klingbeil stand with the new ministers after signing a coalition treaty in Berlin, 5 May, 2025 Michael Owen says only two ...

CDU, along with its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU), won Germany’s elections in February after garnering 28.6% of the vote, according to Germany’s international ...

(AP Photo/Michael ... popular in Germany for the first time, the first time since the founding of the modern German Republic that a party other than the Christian Democratic Union or SPD took ...

Both parties in the agreement have ruled out governing with the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD). CDU, along with its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU), won ...

The centre-right CDU and its sister party, CSU, have agreed on a joint coalition agreement with the centre-left SPD, which they plan to present on Wednesday afternoon. Conservative and centre-left ...

Those issues as well as the rise of the far-right AfD party in Germany put pressure on the CDU and the SPD to quickly form a government that froze out the AfD. Merz will face the economic blow of ...

Since winning February's election, the CDU has affirmed its commitment ... Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany fell by 12.5% under the three-party "traffic light" coalition of the SPD, Greens ...