A new phone, a fancy car, a full fridge: for a long time, politicians assumed that prosperity was all it took to keep ...

The new German government faced its first major roadblock on Thursday after its constituent parties failed to defuse an internal row over whether to reduce electricity prices for individual consumers.

It was the chronicle of a death foretold. Last year Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, drafted a memo for his ...

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 ...

The due diligence law was meant to bring EU-style protections to global supply chains. Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz ...

Merz’s key ally and Germany's second-in-command, Lars Klingbeil, is struggling to unite his Social Democrats behind his ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Former German chancellor Olaf Scholz issued a strong warning against harbouring illusions about the further plans of Russian ...