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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

It is also the starkest sign of the extraordinary turn taken by a country that took full receipt of the peace dividend after ...

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.

Outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, April 30, 2025. REUTERS/Liesa Johannssen Purchase Licensing Rights ...

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 ...