A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

The leaders of the centre right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Christian Social Union (CSU) - the CDU's sister party that ...

Germany's interior minister claimed success for her outgoing government in efforts to curb irregular immigration, saying ...

Three goals are being pursued with Germany’s massive rearmament offensive: Breaking free from military dependence on the US, ...

Parliamentarians of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have caused a political row in Germany by welcoming an apparent US initiative to repair and re-open the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic ...

Negotiations of the CDU/CSU and SPD bloc on the formation of a ruling coalition are taking place in an "explosive atmosphere" ...

The consensus view is Europe remains hindered by turmoil in core Germany and France and a trade war with the U.S., given ...

The CDU/CSU and SPD agree on the urgent need to invest and strengthen Germany's military, the Bundeswehr, at a time when the US seems to be turning away from Europe. The CDU/CSU is considering the ...

Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), the other party in the coalition talks, should step up to preserve the EU Due Diligence Directive. Founded to protect workers’ rights, the SPD has long backed ...

Critics saw the inquest as an assault on civil society after NGOs joined protests against the CDU’s January alignment on migration with the far-right Alternative for Germany. More broadly across ...

Germany’s coalition talks reveal a divide over foreign aid spending, with the SPD pushing to maintain 0.7% of GDP while the ...