Friedrich Merz promised tougher measures to tackle illegal migration, including by turning away people at Germany's borders ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has charged that Friedrich Merz, the country's likely next chancellor, has ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have concluded preliminary talks towards ...

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) said foreign policy and defence must take priority in talks led by their conservative rivals ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) agreed to seek a loosening of Germany's debt brake to ...

FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Olaf Scholz and his conservative rival of the Christian ...

For the third time in its modern history, Germany faced the prospect of early elections. With the Free Democratic Party (FDP) ...

Germany's CDU, CSU and SPD parties have produced an exploratory paper on their plans on various topics, including migration, ...

Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has promised to "massively expand border controls" once the country's next ...

Election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU, its Bavarian sister party CSU, and the Social Democrats (SPD) have taken a major step toward forming a coalition government, the heads of the parties ...

Climate activists fear the worst when Germany's conservatives and Social Democrats begin to thrash out a joint climate policy ...

In Germany, coalition governments are typically formed through a two-step process: parties first engage in exploratory talks ...