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 ...

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

According to the plans of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Christian Social Union (CSU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD), CDU leader Friedrich Merz will be elected as new German chancellor ...

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

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

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

Merz, whose CDU/CSU conservative bloc won February's elections, and the leaders of the SPD signed off on their coalition treaty mapping out their plans for the next four years.

Germany's conservative CDU/CSU political union and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) have signed off on a coalition deal in Berlin which paves the way for a new government to be sworn in on ...

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In Germany, the CDU/CSU and SPD have achieved a first breakthrough in their exploratory talks. They have put together a financial package worth billions. For example, the debt brake for defense ...

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 domestic ...