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Germany's conservative bloc is set to begin coalition talks with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday, as it seeks to form the next government. After ...

Germany’s Greens say they won't support the prospective next government’s plans to loosen debt rules for defense spending and ...

Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected “dictated peace” in Ukraine amid the country’s ongoing war with Russia. Scholz ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will not be "blindsided or bounced" from the pursuit of peace in Ukraine, Deputy PM Angela Rayner has insisted, as Europe reels from Donald Trump's decision to pause US ...

Negotiations to form the next German government have entered a third day, as prospective coalition partners seek to reach an ...

BERLIN (AP) — Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany’s national ...

For the time being, outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose Social Democratic party ... in the former governing coalition lost seats, with SDP falling to 120 seats and the Greens to 85.

You either uphold the principle or you don’t.” Olaf Scholz, the outgoing SDP chancellor, dismissed the speech as inappropriate and criticized the vice president for instructing the German government ...