FRANKFURT, Germany -- German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday ordered parliament dissolved and set new elections ...

Elon Musk, the owner of the X platform, plans to have a conversation with Alice Weidel, the leader of the far-right AfD party ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved parliament and set the country’s snap election for Feb. 23, formally ...

German leaders accused Musk, who claimed that AfD is the only party which can “save” Germany, of trying to “influence the federal election” as the country heads towards sn ...

In Germany, Scholz – who previously ... Seen as a continuity candidate when he took over from Angela Merkel three years ago, he has framed next year’s election as an opportunity for voters ...

Merz has had two political lives: One before Angela Merkel came to power as chancellor in 2005 and the second after she exited in 2021. He withdrew from politics after Merkel's initial election as ...

The confidence vote was needed because post-World War II Germany’s constitution ... engineered an early election that was narrowly won by center-right challenger Angela Merkel.

German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has ordered the country’s parliament to be dissolved and set new elections for February 23 in the wake of the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is backtracking on nuclear power as the atomic emergency in Japan becomes an issue in state-election campaigns. Merkel’s decision to halt seven of Germany’s 17 ...

In the 16 years before Scholz’s three-party coalition, the CDU, under Angela Merkel, had relied on both ... has seen strong performances in regional elections give it a national boost.

focused on the geopolitical blunders committed by previous CDU-dominated governments led by former Chancellor Angela Merkel. Yet while the established parties focused on the past, Germany’s ...

In Germany, a motion for a vote ... Scholz's 2021 election victory ended a 16-year drought for the SPD. He succeeded Angela Merkel, who governed as chancellor from 2005-2021, at the head of ...