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

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 ...

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 French president has decided to give a definitive boost to his European defense project. He has been saying it since 2018: "Europe cannot be protected without a true European army." Emmanuel ...

The class of lawmakers taking office is noticeably more male and less diverse than the constituents it will represent.

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

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

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

The leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a top contender for the chancellorship, Merz is playing a ...

The SPD has long sought to change the country's Basic Law to weaken the "debt brake" - a strict rule prohibiting budget financing with new debt above a certain level ...

Those were the words of conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz in the German Bundestag ... Germany was already in bad standing with Trump while Angela Merkel was ...