BERLIN - Germany's conservative election winner Friedrich Merz came a step closer on Saturday towards forming a government ...

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

Chancellor-in-waiting Merz wants to form a coalition by Easter and has warned it was "five minutes to midnight" for Europe to ...

BERLIN (AP) — The prospective partners in Germany’s next government said Tuesday that they will seek to loosen the nation’s ...

Germany's government-in-waiting unveiled a plan to boost defense spending by hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of ...

It has only been under the leadership of co-leaders Saskia Esken and Lars Klingbeil, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz, that the party has managed to close ranks. Ever since the federal election ...

and SPD leader Lars Klingbeil (r ... German Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine — something SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz refused to do, arguing that these long-range missiles could drag Germany ...

It has only been under the leadership of co-leaders Saskia Esken and Lars Klingbeil, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz, that the party has managed to close its ranks. Ever since the federal election ...

Center-right election winner Friedrich Merz, who is trying to form a coalition government with the center-left Social Democrats of outgoing Chancellor Olaf ... co-leader, Lars Klingbeil, said ...

High-level talks between leaders of Germany's centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and the winners of the country's recent ...

Election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have taken a major step toward forming a ...