"Whatever it takes" appears to be the motto of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, who are expected to form Germany ...

Germany's energy and climate policies under CDU in five points: The pace of climate action, transport sector development, ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

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

Friedrich Merz has a reputation for being tough on China, but the need to accommodate a coalition partner and headwinds from ...

Preliminary talks between Germany's CDU and SPD have yielded an early result, with the parties agreeing on a special fund to ...

Leaders of the likely incoming coalition government announced plans to reform the debt brake and create a special investment ...

The two political parties expected to form the next German government have agreed to significantly loosen the country’s ...

Friedrich Merz from the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is on track to be Germany’s next chancellor.

Compulsory military service should be reintroduced this year in Germany, a leading official of the party that won recent ...

Presumptive Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he would favor the reintroduction of a compulsory year in which young people could ...

Despite declarations by Friedrich Merz, the likely future chancellor, the future government's road to taking office looks to ...