While polling suggests Germany's far-right AfD party will fare well, it's very unlikely to be part of the next government of ...

This may be the year the firewall collapses. The AfD is now polling at about 22 percent nationally and seems destined for a ...

Christian Lindner triggered early elections last fall with a move meant to save his party. It brought chaos at an inopportune ...

Europe’s biggest economy is the 27-nation European Union’s most populous nation and a leading member of NATO, as well as the ...

With German citizens taking to the polls to elect a new government on February 23, 2025, here are the most important trends ...

German SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz is holding out the prospect of joint resolutions in the near future.

And it’s all to play for. The große Koalition — “grand coalition,” or GroKo for short — is one of Germany’s classic government constellations, consisting of the conservatives and the SPD. Germany has ...

Alexander Gunkel, member of the executive board of the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations BDA, added during the event last week that pension proposals of the two major parties, CDU and ...

File image/AP German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under mounting pressure from within his own Social Democratic Party (SPD) to withdraw as its candidate in the upcoming snap election, as his party ...

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) gained three percentage points after refusing to support a divisive bill on migration put forward by the conservatives and ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) gained three percentage points after refusing to support a divisive bill on migration put forward by the conservatives and ...