Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval to loosen strict debt rules for higher defense ...

Leaders in Germany's likely next coalition have met to discuss Ukraine policy and security. Outgoing Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says she wants no leading role in her Green Party parliamentary ...

His bloc and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz will each send a nine-member team ... the CSU chief and state premier of Bavaria, Markus Soeder. Merz said ...

At a news conference on Tuesday, alongside leaders from the Social Democrats and his conservative sister party in Bavaria, ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats ... leader of CSU and Minister-President of Bavaria, in Berlin, Germany, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) Whether ...

being the frontrunner to succeed Olaf Scholz as chancellor, rural constituencies in the southeastern province of Bavaria ...

Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation’s strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talks with SPD co-leader Lars Klingbeil ... s conservative Christian Democratic Union, next to Bavaria’s State Premier and Leader of the conservative Christian ...

Germany’s Greens say they won't support the prospective next government’s plans to loosen debt rules for defense spending and ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started exploratory talks on a possible coalition government.

Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday met with conservative ... Greens on Ash Wednesday The leader of Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU), Markus Söder, has taken advantage of the ...