Tag: Social Democratic Party (Germany)
Coalition Deal in Germany Clears Way for Friedrich Merz to Become...
Germany’s centrist parties announced on Wednesday that they had formally reached a coalition agreement to allow Friedrich Merz, a conservative, to take the...
German Election 2025: Friedrich Merz Appears Poised to Be Next Chancellor
Germans voted for a change of leadership on Sunday, handing the most votes in a parliamentary election to centrist conservatives, with the far...
Friedrich Merz German elections – The New York Times
Germans voted for a change of leadership on Sunday, handing the most votes in a parliamentary election to centrist conservatives, with the far...
German Federal Election: What to Watch For
Germans are voting on Sunday in a rare snap election that has taken on outsize importance as the new Trump administration threatens European...
German Election Spotlight Turns to Trump
On Thursday morning, an Afghan refugee deliberately plowed a car into a crowd in Munich, motivated by what the police called an “Islamist...
German Chancellor Rebukes Vance for Supporting Party That Downplays Nazis
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s imminent elections on behalf of...
German Opposition Gambles With Far-Right on Immigration, and Loses
The man who has been heavily favored to become Germany’s next chancellor took an extraordinary gamble this week, both for his political future...
How Elon Musk is Using Start-Up Tactics to Disrupt European Politics
They are ripe for disruption.Well before Mr. Musk first backed the AfD, it had become the second most-popular party in Germany. The Social...
Musk Says Germany Has ‘Too Much of a Focus on Past...
Elon Musk told a gathering of the hard-right Alternative for Germany party this weekend that the country has “too much of a focus...
‘Firewall’ Around the Far Right Wobbles in Germany
The man who is favored to be Germany’s next chancellor has opened the door to working with the Alternative for Germany to pass...