Germany boosts defense spending to 3.5% of GDP under PM Merz, amending debt laws and strengthening ties with the U.S. amid ...

Olaf Scholz (SPD), Robert Habeck (Greens), Friedrich Merz (CDU) and Alice Weidel (AfD) party, take part in a TV debate in Berlin, Germany, Feb 16, 2025 Kay Nietfeld/ (c) dpa-Pool ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives slipped into second place behind Germany's far right in a poll marking his ...

Germany's outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed a multi-billion-euro spending package that passed the Bundestag on Tuesday as an important contribution to European defence efforts. Speaking ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks during the last parliament session ahead of national's elections, at the Bundestag parliament in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. Credit: AP/Ebrahim ...

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz holds a joint press conference with Mette Frederiksen (not pictured), Prime Minister of Denmark, following their meeting at the Federal Chancellery.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a reception for carnival clubs from all over Germany with dancers and carnival officials at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.

Germany's Warburg Bank, embroiled in the country's Cum-Ex tax scandal, has lost a legal bid to challenge a major tax ...

His predecessor, Olaf Scholz, faced Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine just 78 days into his term. Angela Merkel, who ...

Rights activists in Germany filed criminal cases on Friday against two government ministers after Afghans accepted under a German scheme for at-risk refugees were deported from Pakistan while waiting ...

Olaf Scholz rebuked U.S. Vice President JD Vance for suggesting that far-right parties should not be shut out of government. Germany's other political parties have refused to work with the far ...