Friedrich Merz is a longtime rival of Angela Merkel who has tried to move their party back to the right.

Germany is expected to hold a snap election in February next year. Political turmoil at the heart of Europe is also taking ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote in the German Parliament, ending the unpopular three-party coalition government ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a vote of no confidence Monday, paving the way for early elections in February and ending ...

Scholz won the support of 207 lawmakers in the 733-seat lower house, or Bundestag, while 394 voted against him and 116 ...

Germany's embattled Chancellor Olaf Scholz will face parliament this Monday to trigger the process towards 23 February ...

Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, faces a motion of confidence today that is expected to officially bring down his ...

The German parliament accepted Chancellor Olaf Scholz's invitation to withdraw its confidence in him and his government on ...

Polls suggest that a February election will result in a rightward shift, at a moment when Europe’s largest economy is ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had hoped for this outcome when he called for the confidence vote, analysts say. His aim: to ...

The last German chancellor to lose a vote of confidence was in 2005 under then-SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schroder which led to ...