For the second time in his life, Friedrich Merz is a step away from taking charge of Germany. Losing the fight to control the ...

Germany’s governing coalition has collapsed after disagreements over the country’s weak economy led Chancellor Olaf Scholz to ...

The collapse of Germany’s ’traffic light’ coalition government headed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown the focus on ...

Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday he could be open to reforming the debt brake, which limits the public deficit to 0.35% of ...

A new government beckons in Germany after the implosion of its ruling coalition, but it will face the same question: whether ...

Germany’s last snap election was in 2005. They were called by then-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who subsequently lost to Merkel. The center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) stepped up to fill ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire former corporate lawyer who promises a return to his CDU party's conservative roots as an alternative ...

Germany’s ruling coalition led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz imploded after months of infighting between his center-left Social ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has dismissed his Finance Minister Christian Lindner, stripping the three-party alliance of its ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner, paving the way for a confidence vote by ...

Joerg Kukies, Germany's new finance minister, is a former investment banker who has long been one of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's ...