EXCLUSIVE: Germany's plan to bypass its newly elected Bundestag to lift the Debt Brake has sparked outrage, with critics ...

Germany's chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has hit back at Vice President JD Vance who had criticized European nations over free speech and their treatment of far-right parties.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will next week host French President Emmanuel Macron for talks on Ukraine ahead of an EU summit ...

While Merz is already setting the scene for his chancellery with an unprecedented, debt-funded investment announcement, ...

As the leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), Germany's traditional defenders of the working class, he has pledged better wages, pensions and benefits. Scholz is not known to have built strong ...

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that a halt in fighting could be a starting point for potential peace talks for ...

The prospective partners in Germany’s next government say they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to ...

The prospect of a military spending boom by Germany unprecedented since the Cold War sent Europe's defence stocks soaring ...

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

BERLIN - Germany's outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday discussed U.S.