Friedrich Merz promised tougher measures to tackle illegal migration, including by turning away people at Germany's borders ...

Climate activists fear the worst when Germany's conservatives and Social Democrats begin to thrash out a joint climate policy ...

Merz's conservatives came first in Germany's national election on Sunday ... for Germany (AfD), giving him a mandate to form a coalition government. "Germany will once more be governed reliably ...

Germany's constitutional court dismissed challenges from opposition parties against a significant public spending plan put ...

Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.

Coalition negotiations between the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats to form a new federal government began Thursday.

Friedrich Merz has a reputation for being tough on China, but the need to accommodate a coalition partner and headwinds from ...

The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) demanded major pro-immigration commitments as a precondition for joining a coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) From left: Lars Klingbeil, co-leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), German Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party likely, but the rise of the far-right AfD party and its ...

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

All parties have ruled out forming a coalition with far-right AfD. Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option for ...