The Schuldenbremse was enshrined in the German constitution in 2009 by then chancellor Angela Merkel — a CDU politician — in ...
Friedrich Merz, the head of Germany's opposition Christian Democrats (CDU), is discouraging voters from supporting the ...
the opposition CDU/CSU has now also shifted down a gear and is no longer insisting on January, for which the deadline has ...
BERLIN — Germany’s probable next chancellor, center-right leader Friedrich Merz, urged the country’s current center-left ...
Europe’s largest economy has been plunged into political uncertainty after Scholz fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner of ...
After Germany's government coalition collapsed in a dramatic fashion when Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired Finance Minister ...
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire former corporate lawyer who promises a return to his CDU party's conservative roots as an alternative ...
Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday demanded a calm debate from Germany's squabbling factions on setting the date for a snap ...
Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. German opposition leader Friedrich Merz has called for snap elections as early as January following the ...
German Chancellor Scholz is facing pressure to hold a confidence vote after he fired his minister of finance this week and faces a collapsing government that no longer holds a majority in parliament.
Riding high in the polls, Friedrich Merz's center-right Christian Democrats are champing at the bit to fight in a federal ...