The ripple effect that Germany’s election could spell across Britain, the US and EU German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) after what he called ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed the importance of keeping the path open for Ukraine to join the European Union and ...

UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer has invited the outgoing German chancellor and other key leaders to a defence meeting in ...

Germany’s opposition leader Friedrich Merz won the election, ending Olaf Scholz’s chancellorship after his three-party government collapsed. Merz aims to form a coalition with Scholz’s ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance minister, collapsed his dysfunctional coalition government and blew a gaping hole in the leadership of the EU. On Sunday, Germans head to the polls for ...

Scholz, the 66-year-old incumbent chancellor, is facing an uphill struggle for re-election as his Social Democratic Party struggles to maintain relevance German Chancellor Olaf Scholz leaves after ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, centre left, and Friedrich Merz, CDU candidate for chancellor, before a TV election debate in Berlin, 9 February, 2025 How much Du Plessis made compared to Strickland ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said the European Union can act "in an hour" if US President Donald Trump slaps threatened tariffs on the bloc. Speaking in the first TV debate before snap ...

Merz, 69, has promised to provide greater leadership than Chancellor Olaf Scholz and to liaise more with ... which steered the EU through the Euro crisis, has stagnated since the start of the ...

PARIS — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed frustration at the discussion around ... Scholz also threw his weight behind a plan to make EU rules more flexible in order to allow countries to spend ...

BERLIN ― Germany’s snap election, triggered by the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s left-leaning coalition, has resulted in a sharp rightward shift. With results now in, the next government is ...