UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer has invited the outgoing German chancellor and other key leaders to a defence meeting in ...

The ripple effect that Germany’s election could spell across Britain, the US and EU German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) after what he called ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed the importance of keeping the path open for Ukraine to join the European Union and ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the presumptive next chancellor, believes the "urgency is great" for the country ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance minister, collapsed his dysfunctional coalition government and blew a gaping hole in the leadership of the EU. On Sunday, Germans head to the polls for ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, centre left, and Friedrich Merz, CDU candidate for chancellor, before a TV election debate in Berlin, 9 February, 2025 ‘We have permission: How a cop cut short Ed ...

Germany’s opposition leader Friedrich Merz won the election, ending Olaf Scholz’s chancellorship after his three-party government collapsed. Merz aims to form a coalition with Scholz’s ...

Merz, 69, has promised to provide greater leadership than Chancellor Olaf Scholz and to liaise more with ... which steered the EU through the Euro crisis, has stagnated since the start of the ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said the European Union can act "in an hour" if US President Donald Trump slaps threatened tariffs on the bloc. Speaking in the first TV debate before snap ...

BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is facing fresh scrutiny over an explosive temper after allegedly branding critics of his Ukraine policy “anti-patriotic provincial assholes” during a private ...