Representatives for Germany's center-right Union bloc and the center-left Social Democrats on Monday formally signed a coalition agreement in Berlin. The new coalition is led by Friedrich Merz’s ...

Germany's ruling coalition has agreed a new law to fast-track infrastructure projects and to scrap clean-heating legislation ...

The main churches in Germany have voiced clear political opinions ahead of elections. Not all are pleased, including parties ...

Germany’s incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced Wednesday his center-right Christian Democratic Union made a deal to form a governing coalition with the center-left Social Democrats. The deal ...

Friedrich Merz of the CDU is expected to become the next chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz after Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and center-left Social Democrats agreed to form ...

April 9 (UPI) --Details on a political deal to form a new German coalition government will be presented Wednesday by the conservative Christian Democratic Union and the center-left Social Democratic ...

Baerbel Bas (R), Germany's Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and Chairwoman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, speaks with Lars Klingbeil, Germany's Finance Minister, Vice Chancellor, and ...

Friedrich Merz, Christian Democratic Union party chairman, shakes hands with the Social Democratic Party co-leaders Saskia Esken next to Lars Klingbeil and Markus Soeder, chairman of Bavarian's ...

The Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Christian Democratic Union of Germany will each receive seven ministerial posts in the new cabinet BERLIN, May 5. /TASS/. German Defense Minister Boris ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament delayed him from taking office. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting from ...

SUDHA DAVID-WILP is Vice President of External Relations and a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. LIANA FIX is Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations ...