After more than three years with Chancellor Olaf Scholz at Germany’s helm, Sunday’s election cemented the country’s lurch to ...

The outcome of the German election “has not resulted in a clear path to the constitution being changed to allow for a step ...

Financial markets rose on the likelihood of a two-party coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD, with Germany's benchmark ...

An alliance between Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the center-left SPD is the only viable path to form a new government ...

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

The crucial question now is which coalition will help Friedrich Merz secure the Chancellorship, and how stable and enduring ...

Of all three former governing parties, the Greens performed best in the general election. But they have still landed in ...

Friedrich Merz, the presumptive chancellor of Germany, has confirmed he will seek a coalition with the social democratic SPD ...

US President Donald Trump confirmed that tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada will proceed as planned. This has raised ...

Despite significant gains for the far right, the election may just result in a German government able to take on a leadership role in Europe.

Facing a slowing German economy, high energy bills, onerous bureaucracy and the threat of US tariffs, a Black Forest-based ...

The coalition’s economic measures and the prospect of an increase in the defence budgets of European states to around 3% of ...