Election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU, its Bavarian sister party CSU, and the Social Democrats (SPD) have taken a major step toward forming a coalition government, the heads of the parties ...

We simply must become stronger together in nuclear deterrence in Europe,' Merz, expected to become Germany's next chancellor, ...

The successful completion of the probing negotiations for the winner of the Bundestag elections, the Christian Democratic ...

In Germany, coalition governments are typically formed through a two-step process: parties first engage in exploratory talks ...

Germany's conservative election winner Friedrich Merz came a step closer Saturday towards forming a government which he has ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Merz wants to form a coalition by Easter and has warned it was "five minutes to midnight" for Europe to ...

The plan is for Germany to have a new government in place by mid-April that would end around half a year of political ...

Germany needs a new government fast. The center-right CDU/CSU and the center-left SPD are set to hammer out an agreement by Easter, but there are several sticking points.

The number of asylum applications in Germany fell significantly in the first two months of this year, the BAMF federal office ...

Losing faith in Washington as a military ally, Berlin wants to rip up the old fiscal orthodoxy. But it’s now a race against ...

The ECB is widely expected to make its sixth cut since June last year, with its focus having shifted recently from tackling inflation to boosting the beleaguered eurozone.

Germany is the latest European country to shift to the right, following last weekend’s elections.  Economic decline is a big ...