Germany's outgoing government was a " traffic light coalition " of the SDP (red), the classical liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP, yellow), and the Greens (green). It was an ideologically incoherent arrangement that presided over several years of economic doldrums,

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks during a news conference at the Social Democratic Party (SPD) headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives at a special party convention of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/, File)

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz declared victory after his Christian Democrats won nearly 29% of the votes in the country’s federal election. Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party faced a historic defeat with the lowest vote share for the center-left party since 1949.

The ruling Social Democrats called the election after losing a coalition partner last autumn and a confidence vote in parliament last December. But th

A deal with the SDP, party of current Chancellor Olaf Scholz who finished in a humbling third place, would allow Merz to keep the far-right AfD away from power. The AfD finished second with 20.8 percent of the vote,

Germany's energy and climate policies under CDU in five points: The pace of climate action, transport sector development, energy market, adaptation and EU policy.

Economically troubled Germany just held elections and will soon have a new government. The conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) is likely to create a coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SDP),

Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, is on course for a stunning result in Sunday’s German election, with reports indicating one-in-five voters

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) declared victory Sunday as exit polls and early results suggest the party garnered the biggest vote share in the country’s elections—and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is projected to nab a historic number of votes after billionaire Elon Musk’s endorsement.

In that sense, it offered a window into some of the parallel struggles faced by Democrats in the U.S. and the SDP in Germany, into their shared state of shock over what President Donald Trump is ...