Final opinion polls gave Social Democrats a narrow lead but the Conservatives have reduced the gap in...
The German chancellor is due to formally launch her fourth-term government next Wednesday
SPD leaders - Olaf Scholz, the interim leader, and Andrea Nahles who is expected to take over in April...
Senior conservative Peter Altmaier said Friday's talks had been good and the parties were optimistic...
Merkel, SPD head Martin Schulz and the leader of her Bavarian CSU allies, Horst Seehofer, will meet on...
An Emnid poll for Bild newspaper found less than a third of Germans (30%) supported Schulz's idea while...
Merkel herself has said she would prefer a fresh election to presiding over a minority government
With the SPD now relenting, Merkel said there is 'now an offer to talk, we mean it seriously'
Some senior SPD members have made clear that the party would not be held hostage by Merkel
'We won't be obstructionist for the sake of being obstructionist'
Merkel's CDU too is nervous ahead of a Lower Saxony state poll next week, where it is running neck-and-neck...
Germany’s Angela Merkel faces the task of agreeing on a coalition with three wildly differing parties...
The daily Bild, which had called the election a 'political earthquake', reported that party leaders had...
Merkel, Europe's longest serving leader, joins the late Helmut Kohl, her mentor who reunified Germany,...
The AfD could end up as the biggest opposition force in the national assembly if there is a re-run of...
Green party leader Cem Ozdemir might be already casting himself in the role of foreign minister in a...
The poll of 1,383 voters, conducted from September 12 to September 14, also showed that 39% of those...
