Merz’s incoming coalition wants to press the EU to look at withholding funds and suspending voting rights from Hungary.

Once the great hope of the European climate movement, Germany’s Greens are now confronting their relative powerlessness.

Germany’s new parliament has elected as its speaker a conservative former minister. She called Tuesday for civilized debate ...

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

Lawmakers have embraced plans unveiled by Friedrich Merz, soon to take the reins as Germany's new chancellor, for an enormous ...

Germany's would-be Chancellor Friedrich Merz identified on Friday migration, economic competitiveness and spending cuts as ...

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

Germany's presumptive next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said coalition negotiations between his conservative bloc and the Social Democrats (SPD) were focused on resolving major points of contention but ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared in 2022 that Germany was undertaking a societal and political sea change on national security matters. The word he used for this sea change in thinking, ...

Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval to loosen strict debt rules for higher defense ...