Germany Merkel suffers another election setback in key German state of Hesse Both the parties in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition have suffered heavy losses in a regional election, exit polls suggest. 28/10/2018
View Bavarian election: Do not forget the biggest loser, SPD! | View SPD’s vote actually halved, from 20.6% in 2013, to just 9.7%! This marks the party’s worst result in Bavaria since the 1930s, and is the first state parliament now where they have fallen below the symbolic 10% threshold in recent history - a painful exercise for a former Volkspartei. 15/10/2018
Germany New German movement aims to revive country's left New German movement aims to revive country's left 04/09/2018
Germany German newspaper registers dog to vote in SPD coalition ballot Newspaper Bild signed Lima the dog up for the SPD using the party's online tool and her owner's email and postal addresses. 20/02/2018
Germany German Election: AI program shows bias Researchers used artificial intelligence to compare the manifestos of the German parties with the coalition agreement. And it showed that 70 percent of the content referred to the SPD manifesto and only 30 percent to that of the conservatives 13/02/2018
Germany Party praises Schulz for refusing government role in coalition deal Andrea Nahles, the favourite to lead the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), described Martin Schulz's decision as "remarkable and humane". 09/02/2018
Germany SPD party members will decide Germany's fate Germany's long-awaited coalition needs the backing of the party's young voters. 08/02/2018
Germany SPD-CDU "grand coalition" for Germany on hold All-night talks yet to bear fruit as many SPD rank and file call for any deal with Angela Merkel to be rejected. 07/02/2018
Germany German parties make final push to revive grand coalition A deal on health care and labour reforms are needed to prevent Germany from facing a second election within four months. 06/02/2018
Germany How fall of the Berlin Wall paved way for Germany’s populists Today many Easterners can't help but feel they were merely absorbed by their more wealthy, Western neighbors, rather than joining as equal partners. 05/02/2018
brussels bureau SPD base could veto German coalition Germany is inching closer toward forming a new government. The Social Democrats led by Martin Schulz narrowly voted on Sunday to start talks with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats. If talks go well, Merkel could begin her fourth term as Chancellor by April. 22/01/2018
Germany Germany's SPD back coalition talks in narrow vote Talks to begin reprise of "grand coalition" ending months of political deadlock 22/01/2018
Germany SPD congress clears leaders to talk coalitions with Angela Merkel Grassroots party members will get final say on any eventual deal. 21/01/2018
Germany Last chance for German coalition talks to begin Chancellor Angela Merkel says her conservative bloc and the Social Democrats still had difficult obstacles to clear before they could agree to enter coalition talks 11/01/2018
Germany Germany's Merkel battles for survival in 'last-ditch' talks with SPD The CDU-CSU are in preliminary talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) in what some are labelling a last chance to form a stable coalition in Germany. 08/01/2018
Germany Germany's would-be coalition partners optimistic before talks The coming days could prove decisive for Angela Merkel's future as chancellor. 03/01/2018
Germany Car driver rams SPD party's Berlin HQ In an apparent suicide attack, a man has rammed a car into the Berlin headquarters of Germany's SPD headquarters 25/12/2017
