Increasing Germany’s pure defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP is, analysts agree, as historic and far-reaching moment as ex-ECB president Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” speech in the euro ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz plans to attend the opening of the Richard Wagner Festival in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth ...

Extreme heat expected in Germany this week, Scholz bids farewell to the SPD, and more news from Germany on Monday.

Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) on Sunday passed a motion calling for preparations to ban the far-right Alternative ...

Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) must be ready for painful compromises in government, parliamentary group leader ...

Former German chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday promised his party the Social Democrats that he can be counted on to cherish ...

Olaf Scholz reflected on his years in government as the Social Democratic Party congress bids farewell to the former ...

Vice chancellor, finance minister, co-leader of Germany's oldest party, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD): This week, ...

Trapped between what it sees as a historical responsibility to Israel and international law and diplomacy, Germany is facing a tough foreign policy test after the latest Israeli attacks on Iran.

After the 2022 G7 summit in Bavaria, for instance, asked if he could say more about possible German security guarantees for Ukraine, a grinning Mr Scholz said: “Yes, I could, that’s it.” ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday met with conservative leader and likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and other leading politicians to inform them of developments at a European ...

A week after a poor showing in Germany's federal elections, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left party has won more than 30% of the vote, according to preliminary official results.