(VOVWORLD) - Germany's Social Democrats narrowly won Sunday's national election, projected results showed, and claimed a "clear mandate" to lead a government for the first time since 2005 and...
(VOVWORLD) - Germans went to the polls on Sunday in a national election too close to call, with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) mounting a strong challenge to retiring Chancellor...
(VOVWORLD) - Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, party secretary of Germany's Christian Democratic Union party, was elected as CDU’s new leader on Friday
(VOVWORLD) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will step down as Chancellor in 2021 and not seek re-election as leader of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), a center...
(VOVWORLD) - Combined support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative alliance and its partners, the left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD), has hit a record low for any such "grand coalition"...
(VOVWORLD) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition between the CDU-CSU alliance was facing an uncertain future, as her hardline conservative interior minister Horst Seehofer offered his resignation this Sunday...
(VOVWORLD) - Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) announced 6 ministry appointments to enter a new grand coalition in the Chancellor Angela Merkel-led government
(VOVWORLD) - Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday promised to work with the Social Democrats for “the good of Germany", after the centre-left party voted to join her new coalition
(VOVWORLD) - Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) met on Monday in Berlin to approve a coalition deal with the Social Democrats (SPD), a move that will take their leader, Angela Merkel...
(VOVWORLD) -The final talks on German’s new coalition government are taking longer than expected. Negotiations have progressed but there remain some unresolved impediments to a final agreement. The extended...
(VOVWORLD) - Last week the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU/CSU) began exploratory talks on creating a coalition government. Some breakthroughs were reached at the...
(VOVWORLD) - The leadership of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) on Friday accepted the recommendation of party leader Martin Schulz to begin exploratory talks on forming a government with Chancellor Angela...
(VOVWORLD) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) say they hope to find clarity soon on prospects for a new ruling coalition as they...
(VOVWORLD) - The Social Democratic Party (SPD) leadership agreed Monday to enter into talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) alliance to form...
(VOVWORLD) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) board agreed that the party was ready to conduct "serious talks" with the German's Social Democratic Party (SPD) on...
(VOVWORLD) - Leaders of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party agreed on Sunday to pursue a "grand coalition" with the Social Democrats (SPD) to break the political deadlock in Europe...
(VOVWORLD) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed to form a government as soon as possible after coalition negotiations between the Christian Democrats (CDU), the Social Democrats (SPD), and the Greens...
(VOVWORLD) - Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) agreed on Friday to hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel on renewing their outgoing coalition government, but pledged that party members would have the...
(VOVWORLD) - Most Germans want new elections following the failure of negotiations to form a coalition between the Free Democrats (FDP), Greens, the Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Union (CSU),...
(VOVWORLD) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said she saw no reason to resign after the collapse of talks about a three-way coalition government, adding that her conservative bloc...