Germany’s next scheduled federal election – exactly a year away – was supposed to tell the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) whether it could secure re-election with – or in spite of – Olaf Scholz.

The SPD will join the conservative bloc as the minor partner in the new coalitionKay Nietfeld/dpa/picture alliance The center-left Social Democrats (SPD) have voted in favor of a coalition with Merz's ...

GERMANY:GERMANY'S SOCIAL Democratic Party (SPD) has hit a new opinion poll low of just 22 per cent, as personality and policy wrangles diminish the party's prospects of success in next year's general ...

The result of the SPD vote will be announced on Wednesday with a majority needed and 20% of the party's membership required to voteHalil Sagirkaya/Anadolu/picture alliance The SPD's 358,000 members ...

SPD members vote in favour of coalition treaty with CDU/CSU SPD gains key positions despite historic low result in election Jusos youth wing criticizes SPD concessions in coalition deal BERLIN, April ...

Leaders of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) urged the party's rank and file to approve a high-stakes coalition agreement to form the next government in Berlin. SPD leaders met for a conference ...

BERLIN — Germany’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and center-left Social Democrats (SPD) will begin talks on Friday to explore forming a coalition, both parties told POLITICO. The parties took ...

Friedrich Merz (l), CDU candidate for chancellor and federal CDU chairman, joins Lars Klingbeil, SPD parliamentary group and federal chairman, for a statement before the continuation of the coalition ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Andrea Nahles, the plain-speaking 47-year-old leader of the Social Democrats in Germany's parliament, is set to be given the task of re-energising a 154-year-old party that has ...

Germany's centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) have pulled ahead of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives for the first time in 15 years, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday, just a ...

German Social Democrat Olaf Scholz has vowed to strengthen the European Union and keep up the transatlantic partnership in a three-way coalition government he hopes to form by Christmas to take over ...

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) voted today to begin formal coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, moving Europe's economic powerhouse one step closer to a stable government ...