BERLIN (AP) — Germany ’s center-left Social Democrats have approved a deal to join a new coalition government, paving the way for parliament to elect conservative leader Friedrich Merz as the ...

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament ...

Addressing the Bundestag, incoming Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt concentrated on two points: closing the borders to ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in ...

Friedrich Merz takes office as Germany’s new chancellor under a cloud of uncertainty. With internal dissent, a surging far ...

Germany’s recent federal election signaled a shift in the country’s politics – and employers will surely feel the impact. The center-right ...

The former Bundestag president is poised to become co-leader of the SPD as it attempts a reboot after historic election ...

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—collectively known as the ...

The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholtz ... with 328 of the Bundestag’s 630 seats. The Union and Social Democrats have governed Germany together before: once in the 1960s, and then in ...