BERLIN - The senior leadership of Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats were due to begin talks on ...

Members of the conservative CDU party, likely to lead the next German government, have raised the possibility of importing Russian gas again. The far right has welcomed the idea.

The senior leadership of Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats were due to begin talks on hammering out a coalition agreement on Friday. Here are the main issues: ...

Party leaders from the CDU, CSU and SPD are entering the final phase of coalition talks on Friday. From migration to taxation ...

A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

CDU politician Julia Klöckner is the new president of the German parliament. She is seen as a controversial choice by many, ...

The conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group of Christian Democratic (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz intends to propose experienced politician Julia Klöckner to be the next Bundestag president later ...

MERKEL'S FAR-RIGHT SUCCESSOR - The AfD's Dario ... Friedrich Merz of the conservative CDU. Scholz did however narrowly win his constituency in Potsdam, just outside Berlin, and unusually for ...

A "historically unique" state leader, as former CDU Chancellor Angela Merkel called him. Vogel not only served as a state premier for the longest time in German history, he was the only person to ...

BERLIN — Germany's new parliament on Tuesday elected as its speaker a conservative former minister, who called for civilized ...

The center-right CDU/CSU and the center-left SPD are set to ... together before — most recently under Chancellor Angela Merkel until 2021. So, they have a lot of common ground, but there are ...

Merz’s draft legislation, however, raised the ire of former Chancellor and CDU leader Angela Merkel, who intervened. Now retired from politics, Merkel is a scorched-earth, never-AfD hardliner ...