Following an abysmal showing in federal elections, the Social Democrats will likely govern as junior partners to the ...

The class of lawmakers taking office is noticeably more male and less diverse than the constituents it will represent.

Russian aggression and US isolationism push a once hesitant Germany to invest heavily in defence.

Germany's new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with a reduced headcount, fewer women and a record number of lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). HELMUT KOHL'S ...

The decisions made by the new Bundestag will determine whether Europe moves toward stronger unity and security, or risks ...

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

(Bloomberg) -- Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz plans to free Germany from the fiscal straitjacket that former leader Angela Merkel had locked her country into for more than a decade, a move ...

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

(Bloomberg) — Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz plans to free Germany from the fiscal straitjacket that former leader Angela Merkel had locked her country into for more than a decade, a move that ...

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

Mr. Hermsmeier is a journalist who writes about Germany’s politics and society. Friedrich Merz didn’t waste time. Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s ...