The CDU, CSU and SPD have successfully concluded their exploratory talks and are preparing for coalition negotiations. A joint paper is to serve as a basis with the aim of concluding the negotiations ...

Election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU, its Bavarian sister party CSU, and the Social Democrats (SPD) have taken a major step toward forming a coalition government, the heads of the parties ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friedrich Merz, Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) federal chairman and CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friedrich Merz (L), CDU Federal Chairman and CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag, stands next to Markus Soeder, ...

Fire broke out again overnight at a former mountain retreat used by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Meanwhile, a survey shows ...

Germany needs a new government fast. The center-right CDU/CSU and the center-left SPD are set to hammer out an agreement by Easter, but there are several sticking points. The talks are moving along ...

• Friedrich Merz is likely to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party topped the vote in elections, exit polls project. The stuttering economy and immigration were major ...

Germany’s center-right CDU/CSU and center-left SPD on Monday signed a 146-page coalition agreement in Berlin that lays out their joint governing program, ahead of a parliamentary vote on CDU leader ...