The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and their candidate Olaf Scholz narrowly won last Sunday's...

The outgoing chancellor has been in power since 2005

Laschet has been trailing his Social Democrat challenger Olaf Scholz in the race for the chancellery...

Merkel plans to stand down after the election with  the SPD's Scholz likely to become her...

She leaves with her popularity so resilient she would likely have won a record fifth term had she sought...

Navalny was flown to Germany last year after being poisoned

Washington and Berlin also have differing views on doing business with China, which Germany has wooed...

'This is not acceptable between allies, and even less between allies and European partners,'...

Merkel's centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) scored its worst-ever results in elections...

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There were no immediate reports of casualties

New Covid-19 infections in Germany cross 5,000 cases in the last 24 hours, a level not seen since a lockdown...

This decade could witness the coming together of a new Eurasian axle running from Beijing via Moscow...

The 44-year-old Kremlin critic and anti-corruption campaigner was brought to the German capital on Saturday...

Back in July, Merkel and Macron worked together to persuade squabbling EU members to agree to give the...

Germany and France, the EU's powerbrokers, are seeking a deal on a €1.8 trillion economic recovery...

Australia does not have a comprehensive trade agreement with the EU. Much of EU-Australia trade follows...

'During the German EU Presidency, we will do everything in our power to master this task together...

Merkel, 65, went into quarantine on Sunday after coming into contact with an infected doctor

Merkel is only the third chancellor ever to visit the Nazi German camp where a million Jews were killed...

Merkel, accompanied by several cabinet colleagues and a business delegation, is in India on a three-day...