Members of the conservative CDU party, likely to lead the next German government, have raised the possibility of importing Russian gas again. The far right has welcomed the idea.

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

A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

The SPD wants tax cuts for people on lower incomes and higher taxes for the richest. CSU leader Markus Soeder, premier of ...

CDU politician Julia Klöckner is the new president of the German parliament. She is seen as a controversial choice by many, ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore up Ukraine’s sovereignty and defend Europe from Russia with or without the ...

The conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group of Christian Democratic (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz intends to propose experienced politician Julia Klöckner to be the next Bundestag president later ...

The center-right CDU/CSU and the center-left SPD are set ... government together before — most recently under Chancellor Angela Merkel until 2021. So, they have a lot of common ground, but ...

BERLIN — Germany's new parliament on Tuesday elected as its speaker a conservative former minister, who called for civilized ...

A "historically unique" state leader, as former CDU Chancellor Angela Merkel called him. Vogel not only served as a state premier for the longest time in German history, he was the only person to ...

Collective bargaining in the German public sector has again demonstrated that the working class is facing a political ...

At age 28 he stood for the Christian Democrats (CDU) in February's election ... caused a sensation in February's election by winning Angela Merkel's old constituency on the Baltic Sea coast.