The ripple effect that Germany’s election could spell across Britain, the US and EU German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) after what he called ...

UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer has invited the outgoing German chancellor and other key leaders to a defence meeting in ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday's ...

Germany’s opposition leader Friedrich Merz won the election, ending Olaf Scholz’s chancellorship after his three-party government collapsed. Merz aims to form a coalition with Scholz’s ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance minister, collapsed his dysfunctional coalition government and blew a gaping hole in the leadership of the EU. On Sunday, Germans head to the polls for ...

Merz, 69, has promised to provide greater leadership than Chancellor Olaf Scholz and to liaise more with ... which steered the EU through the Euro crisis, has stagnated since the start of the ...

BERLIN ― Germany’s snap election, triggered by the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s left-leaning coalition, has resulted in a sharp rightward shift. With results now in, the next government is ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left ... Read More: The German Elections Could Transform the EU The projections, based on exit polls and partial counting, put support for ...

The exit poll suggests the the CDU has topped today's ballot have secured 28.5 per cent of the vote while the AfD have taken ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz, meanwhile, insisted that he still ... Germany is a traditional leader of the 27-nation EU and the bloc’s most populous member, but like fellow heavyweight France has ...

The election results are in and conservative leader Friedrich Merz has declared victory, based on projections that show his alliance far ahead. The AfD came in second and is set for its best result ...