The AfD, which doubled its share of the vote to 20.8 percent and has 152 seats in the 630-seat legislature, is now the ...

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Lead negotiators for Germany's conservative CDU/CSU bloc are to resume talks with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Friday with the aim of forming a viable coalition, the three parties ...

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

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

The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and their Bavarian "sister party" the Christian Social Union (CSU) won the February election. However, to have a majority in the new parliament — whic ...

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The largest bloc of far-right lawmakers elected to a German parliament since 1945 will take up their seats on Tuesday when a ...

Germany's prime minister-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has stirred controversy by lifting spending caps, causing a political stir domestically. While aiming to boost economic growth and defense, Merz's ...

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

Working groups for Germany's election-winning conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats will submit findings on a ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, is charting an unexpected course in relations with President ...