The Climate Policy Council states that Germany is about to miss both national goals and the EU 2030 requirements, which means that new policies must be implemented quickly. A key priority for CDU ...

BERLIN — Germany's new parliament on Tuesday elected as its speaker a conservative former minister, who called for civilized ...

The CDU/CSU and SPD have a long wish list for domestic and legal policy – with a clear trend: more surveillance and more ...

The plan, proposed by the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), would mean defence spending above 1% of Germany's gross domestic product ...

The CDU/CSU won the parliamentary elections on February 23 with 28.5%. The SPD came in third with 16.4%, behind the far-right Alternative for Germany(AfD). The AfD has charged Merz was "breaking ...

Preliminary talks between Germany's CDU and SPD have yielded an early result, with the parties agreeing on a special fund to boost defense spending, freed from the "debt brake." Merz made the ...

BERLIN — Germany’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and center-left Social Democrats (SPD) will begin talks on Friday to explore forming a coalition, both parties told POLITICO. The parties took ...

The center-right and center-left parties have ended their first round of talks on time. Despite news of "good progress," ...

There is an allegedly final paper from the CDU/CSU-SPD working group on digital issues: There is no longer any talk of a ...

The leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party Friedrich Merz (L), the co-leaders of Germany's social democratic SPD party Saskia Esken (R) and Lars Klingbeil (2nd L) and the ...

Germany's would-be next chancellor Friedrich Merz is asking lawmakers to allow the country to put "whatever it takes" into ...

After days of intense debate, Germany's leading political parties have announced a historic deal on a spending programme to unlock hundreds of billions of euros for defence and infrastructure. The ...