In the early hours of Friday, Germany’s Greens were given a choice: Would they veto a game-changing spending plan over ...

On March 18, 1990, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged as the strongest party after elections to the East German parliament, the People's Chamber. The CDU laid claim to the offices of prime ...

The February 23 parliamentary poll in Germany produced several outcomes, the prominent being a highly fractured verdict.

Germany’s “Great Coalitions” are getting smaller. In the (then West German) Federal Republic in the 1980s, the centrist major parties gathered over 85% of the vote between them. In 2025, the former ...

Germany’s Greens say they won't support the prospective next government’s plans to loosen debt rules for defense spending and ...

Toluwalope Ogunleye, a medical expert has advised pregnant mothers to donate umbilical cord to a blood bank and potentially save a life.

Germany's far-left party, The Left, sees the exploratory agreements between the CDU and SPD on the way to coalition talks as ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The parties in talks to form Germany’s new government on Tuesday agreed to try to loosen fiscal rules for ...

BERLIN (AP) — The prospective partners in Germany’s next government said Tuesday they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules ...

The former GDR, a stronghold of the AfD, and Vienna, where the extremists won in September, avoided taking responsibility for ...

Friedrich Merz is on track to become the next chancellor of Germany after an early exit poll put his centre-right CDU/CSU bloc in the lead. Reacting to the early results, Mr Merz said he would ...

The election map reveals that the AfD won almost all of the voting districts in the old East Germany (except for Berlin), while the CDU prevailed in the former West German territory. The CDU ...