Friedrich Merz, the chancellor-in-waiting, has the in-tray from hell as country tries to cope with increasing economic ...

After a humbling election defeat for Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democrats (SPD), the party looked to collect ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

German voters head to the polls on Sunday, with the conservatives the strong favourites after a campaign rocked by a ...

At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s ...

Friedrich Merz, head of the conservative Christian Democrats, has vowed to bring stronger leadership to Europe, where the new ...

When Donald Trump won the US election in November, Germany’s government imploded. Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance ...

When European leaders discussed their response to US-Russian negotiations about ending the war in Ukraine, the German ...

European markets fell on Monday as traders reacted to the results of the German federal election. The pan-European Stoxx 600 ...

Mr Scholz, left the Paris early as divisions emerged about the creation of a European peacekeeping force to police any ...