Friedrich Merz promised tougher measures to tackle illegal migration, including by turning away people at Germany's borders ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have concluded preliminary talks towards ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has charged that Friedrich Merz, the country's likely next chancellor, has ...

The conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) agreed to seek a loosening of Germany's debt brake to allow higher defence ...

FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Olaf Scholz and his conservative rival of the Christian ...

Germany's Greens, led by Felix Banaszak, plan to draft their own security and defense proposal, opposing the conservatives' and SPD's massive borrowing plans. The Greens accuse the conservatives of ...

Election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU, its Bavarian sister party CSU, and the Social Democrats (SPD) have taken a major step toward forming a coalition government, the heads of the parties ...

Germany's CDU, CSU and SPD parties have produced an exploratory paper on their plans on various topics, including migration, ...

In Germany, coalition governments are typically formed through a two-step process: parties first engage in exploratory talks ...

The national election was disastrous for Germany's center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD). Voters have been fleeing it in droves. Its recent victory in Hamburg isn't doing much to lift the mood.

Climate activists fear the worst when Germany's conservatives and Social Democrats begin to thrash out a joint climate policy ...

The prospective partners in Germany’s next government say they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to ...