Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU), the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) last week struck ...

BERLIN (AP) — The German parliament plans to meet on May 6 to elect Friedrich Merz as the country's next leader, if all the ...

The German government and Analena Baerbock’s Foreign Ministry are excluding Russia from the commemoration because they are ...

The parties seeking to build a new coalition government under Friedrich Merz are making slow progress in their negotiations. Immigration and taxes are the main sticking points.

The post of speaker — in protocol terms Germany's second-highest, behind the president and ahead of the chancellor — traditionally goes to the strongest group in parliament's lower house ...

is Germany's second-highest, behind the president and ahead of the chancellor. It traditionally goes to the strongest group in parliament's lower house, or Bundestag. (end) ...

The new parliament takes shape after two consecutive years of economic contraction and nerves about Germany's and Europe's response to the Ukraine war and Donald Trump's return to the White House.

BERLIN (AP) — The German parliament plans to meet on ... approve a coalition agreement reached last week. Parliament's lower house, the Bundestag, said Monday that Speaker Julia Klöckner ...