The Social Democrats will conduct a membership-wide vote April 15 - 29, while the CDU will make its decision at a small party conference on April 28. The CSU approved the coalition agreement ...

Refillable aluminium bottles of Clean Cult’s cleaning and laundry products are now available from Costco – a move set to offer an affordable and effective replacement to plastic packaging in home care ...

Friedrich Merz, Germany’s new chancellor, is a man in a hurry. The centre-Right Christian Democrats (CDU) leader has met his deadline of forming a government by Easter, something almost unheard ...

Before that can happen, the coalition deal will need approval in a ballot of the Social Democrats’ membership and by a convention of Merz’s CDU. Details of the agreement weren’t immediately ...

The CDU was set to take charge of economy and foreign ministries as well as the chancellery, while the SPD would take charge of finance and defence, according to a document seen by Reuters. That puts ...

The centre-right CDU and its sister party, CSU, have agreed on a joint coalition agreement with the centre-left SPD, which they plan to present on Wednesday afternoon. Conservative and centre-left ...

Friedrich Merz of the CDU is expected to become the next chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz after Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and center-left Social Democrats agreed to ...

The deal caps weeks of haggling between chancellor-in-waiting Merz and the SPD after his conservative CDU/CSU alliance topped elections in February but fell well short of a majority ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union CDU, left, and the co-leaders of the Social Democratic Party SPD, Lars Klingbeil, center, and Saskia Esken arrive to meet for ...

Germany's conservative CDU/CSU bloc and center-left Social Democrats will present their agreement to form a new coalition government at 3:00 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Wednesday, the CDU/CSU and SPD said ...

Six weeks after winning Germany’s federal election, the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its chairman Friedrich Merz face two additional challenges: a global trade war and a ...