German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) after what he called “a bitter ...

When his coalition collapsed after a budget dispute in 2024, it sealed his fate.

When Donald Trump won the US election in November, Germany’s government imploded. Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance ...

Germany’s opposition leader Friedrich Merz won the election, ending Olaf Scholz’s chancellorship after his three-party ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...

Scholz, the 66-year-old incumbent chancellor, is facing an uphill struggle for re-election as his Social Democratic Party ...

Merz, 69, has promised to provide greater leadership than Chancellor Olaf Scholz and to liaise more with ... which steered the EU through the Euro crisis, has stagnated since the start of the ...

BERLIN ― Germany’s snap election, triggered by the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s left-leaning coalition, has resulted in a sharp rightward shift. With results now in, the next government is ...

Germans go to the polls Sunday. Chancellor Scholz's Social Democrats are likely to lose to the conservative CDU party, as the ...