After weeks of negotiations, the conservative CDU/CSU bloc and center-left SPD presented a coalition deal to form a new government. Talks took on a sense of urgency amid a host of global and ...

Polls opened at 8 a.m. (0700 UTC) and closed at 6 p.m. Latest projections put CDU/CSU at 29%, the right-wing populist AfD at around 19.5%, and Chancellor Scholz's SPD at 16% The AfD is shunned by ...

The CDU/CSU bloc won 25% of the vote, their weakest result in a post-war federal election and on a par with the centre-left Social Democrat (SPD), the infratest poll for broadcaster ARD showed.

A serious rift broke out Friday within Germany’s coalition government over the appointment of new judges to the ...

The government and party leaders have made clear they are determined to squeeze trillions of euros out of the working ...

Germany's new government has been in office for two months. So far only Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Conservatives are making ...

The SPD achieved the worst result in its history in the federal election, and the CDU/CSU alliance its second-worst. The only reason they have a narrow majority of seats in the Bundestag is ...

Even if the SPD were to become the strongest party in the Bundestag, the FDP and Greens could also opt to team up with the CDU/CSU, leaving the SPD out in the cold.

The Social Democrats (SPD) won the 2021 German election with 25.7 percent of the vote, slightly ahead of the conservative CDU/CSU which got 24.1 percent, according to official preliminary results ...

Germany's consensus-driven parliamentary system has entered a more rough-and-tumble period amid a rise of the political extremes.

The CSU and CDU disagree over immigration policy, with CSU chief Horst Seehofer repeatedly calling for a cap on the number of refugees entering Germany, a suggestion Merkel has vetoed.

Four weeks ago, in a poll by the same institute, support for the CDU/CSU stood at 38 percent, 16 percentage points ahead of the SPD on 22 percent. Another poll by Insa published on Monday by Bild even ...