‘PERIOD OF TRANSITION’ — President Donald Trump and some of his top officials are engaging in an eyebrow-raising strategy in the first weeks of their administration: warning of economic tremors and ...

New conservative alliance clears first hurdle for forming a new government by agreeing on electricity price cuts, and a continuation of the country’s landmark energy transition.

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called for European unity in the face of current political challenges, ...

Germany’s “Great Coalitions” are getting smaller. In the (then West German) Federal Republic in the 1980s, the centrist major parties gathered over 85% of the vote between them. In 2025, the former ...

Germany’s Greens vowed to block plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing but ...

While the actual paper remains vague on climate policy, the Greens have made their way into pre-coalition talks, making their ...

A massive plan to loosen Germany's debt rules and spend hundreds of billions on defence and infrastructure has run into ...

The party said they would not support the conservative chancellor-in-waiting’s paradigm-changing plan to invest massively in ...

The CDU and SPD, likely coalition partners in Germany's next government, want to relax the debt brake for spending on defense and infrastructure. But the Greens said this would not invest enough in ...

Germany's new right-leaning coalition government is set to reshape the nation's energy policy, balancing climate goals with ...

Germany's Green party opposes likely Chancellor Friedrich Merz's plan to increase state borrowing, potentially derailing a ...

Germany's Green party on Monday threatened to torpedo plans put forward by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz to invest hundreds of billions in defence and infrastructure.