Germany’s conservatives are desperate to avoid a three-party coalition, but the outcome depends on how many small parties ...

With less than four weeks before Germany’s federal election, Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his conservative challenger Friedrich ...

BERLIN — With Germany’s election less than a month away, center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown cold water on the prospect of reviving the country’s traditional grand coalition — bluntly ...

A crisis-ridden, politically unstable Germany is coping with a brash and unpredictable Trump presidency. Germans look set to alter course and push for more independence after snap elections on Feb. 23 ...

Chancellor Scholz says rival Merz joining forces with far-right party in parliament to introduce stricter migration ...

Germany’s parliament has narrowly approved a call by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s main challenger to turn back many more migrants ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has put demands for a more restrictive ... to a growing divide between Merz's bloc, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left Social Democrats and their remaining ...

In the run up to Germany’s snap general elections Jeremy Cliffe goes to Ludwigshafen, a symbol of Germany's economic woes.

Friedrich Merz, Germany's opposition leader, is pushing for tougher migration policies ahead of the upcoming election, ...

Opening the door to leaning on support from the far-right is a gamble for Merz, who believes that his increasingly radical ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, whose party leads the polls ... German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks at an SPD election campaign event with a citizens' survey in the Festsaal Kreuzberg ...

Scholz's Challenger Brings Tough Migration ... he's breaking commitments to shun the far right. Opposition leader Friedrich Merz put migration in the focus of the campaign following a knife ...