The former Goldman Sachs banker on the impact of US tariffs, and his role in structuring Friedrich Merz’s €1tn spending plan ...

“This really is democracy’s last bullet,” said CSU leader Markus Söder. While he was referring to the threat from the far ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz strongly condemned a Russian attack in northeastern Ukraine that killed more ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative German party CDU is set to be elected chancellor on May 6, party sources said on ...

The foreign aid budget - which has been a huge source of pride for officials in the European country - could be slashed amid ...

Germany's 146-page coalition deal lays out policy compromises in exacting details. But who runs which ministries remains a ...

Merz's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is set to take the foreign and economy ministries, while the SPD will ...

Germany faces the conundrum of choosing ministers for its next government without flouting equality sensitivities: the main ...

While both the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats support the Jewish state, the future allies will need to find common ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career ...

After weeks of negotiations, the conservative CDU/CSU bloc and center-left SPD presented a coalition deal to form a new government. Talks took on a sense of urgency amid a host of global and domestic ...

In Germany, the centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz was also on his way out ... In calling for a rethink about the US ...