Riding high in the polls, Friedrich Merz's center-right Christian Democrats are champing at the bit to fight in a federal election campaign. But it's not all a bed of roses for the center-right conservatives.

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the opposition centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), accused Social Democrat Scholz of delaying tactics because Scholz had refused to speed up his planned timetable for fresh elections, following the collapse of his ...

Germany’s center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced he is firing Finance Minister Christian Lindner, which could undermine the ruling three-party coalition that relies on Lindner’s pro-business party.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz focused on foreign issues speaking at an EU meeting in Budapest after the unraveling of his coalition at home. The leader of the opposition repeated a call for an early vote around the same time.