The Social Democrats' Olaf Scholz said that his party together with the Greens and the Free Democrats had a "mandate" to form a government in Germany, after the parties agreed to begin coalition talks.
Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU will choose a new leader at a special congress on April 25th, sources told AFP on Monday, as the party scrambles to prepare for the veteran German chancellor's departure.
Voters in German city-state Hamburg punished Chancellor Angela Merkel's crisis-racked conservatives and ejected the far right from parliament in a regional election Sunday, according to an exit poll.
German MP Karamba Diaby reported finding "bullet holes" in the windows of his constituency office Wednesday, prompting outrage and alarm that the country's politicians are facing increasing levels of intimidation and violence.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's party on Sunday reacted coolly to concessions sought by the new leaders of the Social Democrats in return for keeping their fragile coalition afloat
The new, leftist leaders of Germany's Social Democrats offered Angela Merkel's struggling coalition a lifeline at a key congress on Friday but vowed to push for more action on climate protection and public investments.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's right-left coalition faces a "stress test" from Friday as the weakened Social Democrats kick off a crunch congress to discuss their next move under a new, more radical leadership.
Headed by a new leftist leadership duo,
Germany's struggling Social Democrats are gearing up for a crunch congress
from Friday that could decide the future of Chancellor Angela Merkel's fragile
coalition government.
Angela Merkel faces a rocky political road ahead as she battles to hang on until 2021 as German chancellor, after her junior coalition partner SPD elected a left-leaning leadership duo.
After a series of electoral setbacks, Germany's Social Democrats will choose their new leaders on Saturday in an
attempt to revive the party's fortunes.
Members of Germany's social-democratic party (SPD) begin voting in the second round of a leadership election on Tuesday in
a showdown which could shape the future of Angela Merkel's coalition government.
Germany's Social Democrats could end up deciding if the country faces snap elections, the leader of Angela Merkel's party said Monday, after her junior coalition partner sank into chaos over the resignation of its leader.
Parties in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government are set to hold separate crisis talks on Monday, after her fragile coalition suffered a fresh blow as the leader of junior partner SPD quit.
The leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior coalition partner SPD said Sunday she was resigning from her party chief job, raising the spectre that Germany's embattled government could collapse.
The centre-right Christian Democrats could be set to overtake the Social Democrats in Bremen for the first time in more than 70 years, according to state election exit polls.
Germany's biggest online stars closed ranks Friday around YouTuber Rezo whose rant against Chancellor Angela Merkel's party has gone viral, with an open letter urging Germans to shun her coalition's parties at EU elections over their climate failings.
Bremen, Germany’s smallest state, goes to the polls on Sunday in a regional election, that’s set to see the Social Democrats continue their downfall. Why can’t the party pull itself together?
The Social Democrats were falling into civil war on Thursday after the leader of their youth movement gave an explosive interview in which he called for luxury carmaker BMW to be nationalised and the property rental market to be abolished.
Germany's Social Democrats called Monday for greater welfare spending in a shift back to their leftist roots, further straining ties with coalition partners, Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.
We visit SPD politician Karamba Diaby in his Halle constituency near Leipzig to discuss media coverage of East Germany, challenging the rise of the AfD, and what impact he hopes his autobiography will have.
An SPD member of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state parliament helped bring an AfD employee 'back to life' after he collapsed during a meeting in DĂĽsseldorf
A poll published on Friday says Germany's governing coalition parties - the CDU/CSU and SPD - would receive just 39 percent of the vote if there were Bundestag elections on Sunday, the lowest ever combined result.
A week from now on Sunday, October 28th, voters in Hesse will decide whether the Christian Democrats (CDU)-Green coalition state government should stay in power. But it’s about much more than that. Elections in Hesse rarely receive such attention on a national level.
