After being passed over for a ministerial post in Germany’s new grand-coalition government, it was clear that Saskia Esken’s ...

Germany’s cabinet approved a package of tax breaks for companies worth an estimated €46 billion ($52 billion), part of a ...

The coalition negotiations between the social democratic SPD and conservative right CDU/CSU are going surprisingly smoothly, almost harmoniously. Lars Klingbeil, co-chairman of the SPD, explains ...

The reason for stiffing the AfD on real estate is the usual threat of fascism. The SPD has nicknamed its large hall Otto Weis ...

The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholtz ... with 328 of the Bundestag’s 630 seats. The Union and Social Democrats have governed Germany together before: once in the 1960s, and then in ...

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) approved a coalition agreement with the CDU/CSU conservatives, two sources close to the party said on Wednesday, clearing the last hurdle for the formation of a ...

If the deal is approved by the CDU and by grassroots members of the Social Democrats it will clear ... well as the rise of the far-right AfD party in Germany put pressure on the CDU and the ...

the primary opposition to the coalition between the CDU and the center-left Social Democratic Party of Germany. With the backing of one in five German voters, the AfD cannot be lightly dismissed.

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged U.S. officials to refrain from interfering in his country’s politics in an ...