At stake was the biggest fiscal expansion in Germany’s post-war history, meant to upgrade its creaking infrastructure and rearm its military to face the Russian threat. After hours of debate, 512 MP s ...

BERLIN — Germany's new parliament on Tuesday elected as its speaker a conservative former minister, who called for civilized debate in what is likely to be a confrontational term after a far-right, ...

The German parliament is off to a rocky start as Alternative for Germany, or AfD, lawmakers took their seats among rival politicians devoted to keeping the growing party out of the mainstream.

German conservatives under Friedrich Merz agreed a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, ...

Economic analysts suggest economic uncertainty and internal party disagreements could yet dampen voter enthusiasm for the ...

On Tuesday (March 25, 2025) the new Bundestag in Berlin elected Julia Klöckner as its new president. A senior politician of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Klöckner is considered a ...

The Bundestag is set to reshuffle on March 25 to reflect the outcome of last month’s parliamentary election. The CDU came in first-place but hemorrhaged supporters into second-place Alternative ...

Workers on Wednesday rearranged the blue seats in the chamber of the lower house of parliament, or Bundestag. After each election, the chairs and desks are unscrewed and put back into place to reflect ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) took up its largest-ever share of the seats as Germany's new parliament met for ...

Germany’s outgoing Bundestag will go out with a bang on Tuesday with an all-or-nothing sitting to back – or sink – an unprecedented €1 trillion stimulus plan for defence, climate and ...

Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation’s strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the ...

Eurozone government bond yields fell in early trade, but remained near recent highs, as focus turns to the German Bundestag debate on debt brake reform.