This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the Greens are standing in his way.

Germany’s likely next leader Friedrich Merz was set yesterday to defend his unprecedented plans to massively ramp up defense ...

BERLIN — Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting in a fiery Bundestag debate Thursday urged Green lawmakers to pass constitutional ...

Merz's conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats – in talks to form a coalition after February's general election – ...

The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) demanded major pro-immigration commitments as a precondition for joining a coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Chancellor-to-be vows greater share of investments for green transition as outgoing Bundestag reconvenes to debate bills ...

From Parliament's vice-presidents to committee chairs and delegation leaders, Brussels has its hands in German coalition ...

The conservatives and Social Democrats also banned leaks, according to a leaked copy of the rulebook seen by POLITICO.

Midterm elections tend to be unkind to the party in power. The sitting president’s party has lost House seats in every midterm but two dating back to 1950. The last time Donald Trump was president, ...

Box office is down, producers are struggling and a promised tax break is still MIA. "If things don't change soon, the damage ...

As the country awaits a new coalition government, we asked readers which issues were most important to them as foreign ...