A reform of Germany's constitutionally enshrined debt brake, which limits public borrowing, would be discussed by the leaders ...

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 ...

Germany’s Social Democrats are under pressure to quickly revamp leadership as a role in a new government beckons, even though ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday evening that he would remain in office until the next coalition government is ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will be succeeded by conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz after his party, the ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, has said "from tomorrow we start working" on forming a government as ...

Meanwhile the governing centre-left SPD has slumped to third place in what looks set to be a disastrous result for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party. The party are already describing the result as a ...

The chancellor told supporters the success of the far-right "must never be something we will accept". Zelensky offers to ...

Despite falling more than 9 percentage points to 16.3% in Sunday’s election, the SPD will probably be tapped by-election ...

Germany‘s conservative opposition leader, Friedrich Merz, won the national election on Sunday, but the outcome was far from ...