Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz has initiated coalition talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) following their election victory...

Friedrich Merz has led the Christian Democrats to victory in Germany's election. The 69-year-old politician will now enter into talks with ...

The Ukraine war, migration and the economy are some of the central issues that voters will be looking at. The far-right AfD is likely to se...

The Social Democrats saw their vote share diminish to around 16 percent from 27.3 percent in the last election in 2017, exit polls by natio...

Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, who led the Social Democrats' (SPD) campaign, said Europe's biggest power would not be thrown off by the powe...

Merkel has been in power since 2005 but plans to step down after the election, making the vote an era-changing event to set the future cour...

“I don’t understand why the SPD never said a good word about the grand coalition during the election campaign,” said Merkel, Europe’s longe...

GERMANY-ELECTION-NRW-EXITPOLL:Merkel's conservatives clinch victory in key state vote -exit polls

Schulz, a Social Democrat, has led the European Union’s legislature since 2012.

Ashok Sridharan, a mayoral candidate of Chancellor Angela Merkel-led Christian Democratic Union, has comprehensively won the election in Bo...

Coalition leaders announced that dealing with the communist past of eastern Germany will be a main focus of the new government's policy.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party polled 12.2 per cent and 10.6 per cent of the votes respectively in yesterday's elections.

Europe is partly to blame for the crisis in Ukraine although this is no excuse for Russian behaviour towards the former Soviet republic.

Germany's Green party today pulled out of coalition talks with Angela Merkel's CDU, leaving the Chancellor to focus on discussions with the...

Angela Merkel and the rival who came a distant second in last month's national election held a first round of preliminary talks.

Germany's ruling coalition has reached agreement on a 50-billion-euro (70-billion-dollar) economic stimulus plan over the next two years, r...

Germany's centre-left SPD set up an election showdown today, picking current foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier as its candidate to f...