Brussels will insist on ‘parallelism’, where nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, in PM’s reset talks

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned Wednesday that the initiative launched by the head of the conservative opposition and favorite in the polls of voting intentions, Friedrich Merz, to de facto close the borders to refugees violates European law and would equate Germany with Viktor Orbán's Hungary.

He is a close ally of conservative U.S. President Donald Trump and has, much to the ire of Scholz, spent the past few weeks boosting the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party ahead of a national snap election on Feb. 23. The AfD is currently riding high in polls ahead of the vote.

Sir Keir Starmer will host German Chancellor Olaf Scholz over the weekend, Downing Street has confirmed. The two leaders are due to meet on Sunday, and comes as the Government is looking to reset its relationship with the European Union.

The European Union is working on a proposal for bloc-wide purchase incentives for electric vehicles to support the bloc’s struggling automakers, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday.

BERLIN — With Germany’s election less than a month away, center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown cold water on the prospect of reviving the country’s traditional grand coalition — bluntly declaring that he “can’t trust” conservative leader Friedrich Merz anymore.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz's main challenger in Germany's upcoming election plans to put proposals for a tougher migration policy to parliament.

The countdown is on to what is perhaps Europe's most important election of this year. On February 23, Germans go to the polls in a parliamentary vote, following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf

The Tories have celebrated the anniversary, with shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel saying it marked five years since her party 'honoured the democratic will of the British people and got Brexit done'. Kemi Badenoch has dismissed Reform UK as a “protest party” as Nigel Farage prepares to hold a rally in her constituency tonight.

Danish PM Frederiksen, however, signalled she had "no reason to believe there is a military threat to Greenland or Denmark."

According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the European Union is working on a proposal for EU-wide purchase incentives for electric vehicles. However, there

Speaking in Davos, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy questioned whether Trump was committed to NATO and European security.