Olaf Scholz

European Union leaders sound alarm over weak governments in Germany and France

Prospects of a trade war and collapse of US support for Ukraine pose grave threats to EU

Chancellor accuses FDP leader Christian Lindner of ‘egotism’, but will wait until January to call snap election

Warning comes as European leaders congratulate Donald Trump on US election victory

German economics minister Robert Habeck argues country trapped in vicious circle of low growth and a tight fiscal corset

Chancellor under pressure amid sluggish economy and opposition leader’s popularity

US president in Germany to hold talks with Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer

In the country of the Holocaust, pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian camps have spent the last year facing off on a daily basis

However, State sold shares accumulated during 2008-2010 banking crisis to bidder in auction

Chancellor has lost his three-year-old hero factor in recent elections. He has even been dropped from SPD posters

Polls say the far-right party will get another big win in Tuesday’s state election in Brandenberg, further weakening the position of chancellor Olaf Scholz

Centre-right opposition leader gets CDU and CSU backing in shift towards tougher line on migration

Interior minister Nancy Faeser said decision to temporarily set aside open-border measures was due to security risk posed by the numbers of irregular arrivals

Social Democratic Party leader rejects Christian Democratic Union claim government has ‘lost control’ of immigration

As migration ramps up tensions in the Scholz coalition, few in Berlin expect ‘temporary’ border measures to be eased before June 2026, when a new EU migration and asylum pact comes in

Former ECB head gives his diagnosis but European Union likely won’t agree to take its medicine

Germany's Olaf Scholz tells ZDF the time is right ‘to discuss how we can get out of this war situation and towards peace’

With old political certainties withering and new populist parties surging, the 75th birthday party for German parliamentary democracy is a festival of strange bedfellows

Derek Scally on the stories that caught his eye including how talk about mental health in Ireland rarely results in action

The carmaker’s struggles reflect the difficult time the country’s once-vaunted manufacturing base is going through

Representative survey out this week indicated just 23 per cent of Germans would like Chancellor to return for a second term

Excluding Alternative for Germany (AfD) from power after its strong showing on Sunday will enable it to rally support against the ‘undemocratic’ established parties

Far-right win raises fresh doubt over Scholz’s ability to win second term in next year’s federal elections

A political earthquake, exactly a year ahead of federal elections, sees the AfD top the poll in Thuringia

Concerns about immigration, the war in Ukraine and energy are reshaping the country’s political landscape

PM’s meeting with French president follows recent visit to Germany where he said he was not ‘reversing Brexit’ amid plans for treaty

Chancellor Olaf Scholz vows to tackle exploitation of system while AfD co-leader demands five-year asylum moratorium

Attack at city festival in Solingen killed three and left eight injured

Eight injured, five of them seriously, police say, as investigators look into terror motive

Berlin’s domestic austerity measures spark fears of military aid to Kyiv being halved

Deal between long-time adversaries – negotiated mostly by spies – secured release of several prisoners scattered across Russia, the US and Europe

Irish passport holder Paul Whelan among those released along with journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva

Growing concern as 5.5m recipients at present cost almost €46bn annually, nearly 6% of the total federal budget

Since Berlin became the capital again 25 years ago, German ingenuity, once applied to solving problems, has been applied to finding excuses. No wonder national team manager Julian Nagelsmann decided to give the whole country a pep talk

Berlin says it will not be intimidated by Moscow’s ‘hybrid war’ against Kyiv’s allies

Admission by minister for defence comes as Olaf Scholz prepares to tell Nato summit Germany is meeting obligation to spend at least two 2% of GDP on defence

Budget row has ballooned into another existential standoff for Germany’s three government parties

Brussels moves ahead with additional duties of up to 25% despite opposition from Germany

Ukraine president spoke to German MPs in advance of ‘summit of peace’ in Switzerland

German voters went out of their way to express no confidence in the ‘traffic light’ coalition