Based on more than a dozen interviews in the final weeks of the German election campaign, POLITICO tells the story of how violence and migration shaped one of the most momentous votes in the country’s ...

A stagnant economy has also contributed to the deep unpopularity of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s infighting-prone government. The party emerged Sunday as the strongest force across the ...

The government of outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was deeply unpopular ... This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. Trying to ...

Germany's national elections saw Olaf Scholz's SPD defeated, with Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU alliance winning over 28% of the vote. The far-right AfD surged to second place with 20%, while coalition ...

Despite falling more than 9 percentage points to 16.3% in Sunday’s election, the SPD will probably be tapped by-election winner Merz to enter coalition talks. Germany’s Social Democrats are ...

Image: Olaf Scholz's SPD party collapsed to the third largest party - with 16.4% of the vote. Pic: AP Meanwhile Christian Lindner - FDP party leader and former finance minister, whose dismissal by ...