The senior leadership of Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats were due to begin talks on hammering out ...

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

Germany's new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday, with a record number of MPs from the far-right AfD expected to ...

The parties seeking to build a new coalition government under Friedrich Merz are making slow progress in their negotiations.

Despite suffering their worst electoral humiliation since the 1890s, Germany’s Social Democrat party (SPD) is displaying a ...

With coalition negotiations between the CDU-CSU and SPD reaching a crucial point of no return, Brian Melican looks at what ...

The so-called “antisemitism” resolution passed by the German parliament in the midst of the recent federal election campaign ...

Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under growing pressure to win conservative policy concessions as coalition talks hit key stumbling blocks.

Germany's presumptive next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said coalition negotiations between his conservative bloc and the Social Democrats (SPD) were focused on resolving major points of contention but ...

Merz's tougher stance on migration reflects a changing political landscape, where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ...

Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has taken its place as the Bundestag ’s second-largest party in an opening ...