Billionaire Elon Musk called German Chancellor Olaf Scholz a fool. This sparked a response from the German government, ...

A party ally says Chancellor Scholz would be open to talks with Friedrich Merz on when to move toward new elections — but only after dealing with urgent business in parliament. Merz earlier said this ...

The German government imploded over the controversial debt brake. Former Finance Minister Christian Lindner said the chancellor's demand to suspend it would have violated his oath of office. But it's ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his Free Democratic Party (FDP) coalition partner finance minister Christian Lindner on ...

German Eonomy Minister Robert Habeck says he hopes to become his Green Party’s chancellor in the coming election.

A court in Germany has fined Detlef Görtz, a former member of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament and member of the Christian ...

In the charts below, we see that eastern Germany’s population is not only older on average than that of the west, but it has fallen significantly since reunification — from 16mn in 1990 to 12.6mn in ...

Early elections in Germany may not be possible because of a lack of paper, the head of the electoral commission has said.

Germany marks 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell with festivities from Saturday under the theme "Preserve Freedom!" as ...

German chancellor Olaf Scholz has sacked his finance minister, Christian Lindner, pitching the country toward elections.

PERKS OF BEING A PRIME MINISTER — It’s been more than 15 years since either Dominique de Villepin, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Lionel Jospin held the office of prime minister in France, but taxpayers are ...

German Economy Minister Robert Habeck is ramping up pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to schedule new elections without delay.