However, CDU leader Friedrich Merz has refused to support Scholz’s legislative agenda as a condition for agreeing to quick ...

the opposition CDU/CSU has now also shifted down a gear and is no longer insisting on January, for which the deadline has ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has postponed a trip to Saudi Arabia scheduled for next week to hold talks with ...

Europe’s largest economy has been plunged into political uncertainty after Scholz fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner of ...

The Christian Union and the Greens accuse the Social Democrat chancellor of inaction and call for President Steinmeier's ...

As well as being in "close contact" with Scholz and conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, Steinmeier also spoke to ...

As well as being in “close contact” with Scholz and conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, Steinmeier also spoke to ...

Germany’s ruling coalition led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz imploded after months of infighting between his center-left Social ...

German Economy Minister Robert Habeck, representing the Green party, has declared his candidacy for the chancellorship following the collapse of the ruling coalition. With Germany facing rising ...

Coalition partner Free Democratic Party’s obstructionist tactics were a major factor in the government’s ineffectiveness, ...

In a statement published on the CDU's website last Thursday, party leader Friedrich Merz - widely tipped to become Germany's next chancellor - also urged Scholz to schedule a vote of confidence in the ...