German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks, on the day he receives the 2025 Research and Innovation report by the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI), in Berlin, Germany February 26, 2025.

The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar result.

Olaf Scholz rebuked U.S. Vice President JD Vance for suggesting that far-right parties should not be shut out of government. Germany's other political parties have refused to work with the far-right AfD.

Speaking at a Saudi-backed investment meeting in Florida, Trump said the only thing Zelensky "was really good at was playing Joe Biden like a fiddle". The "dictator" slur quickly prompted criticism from European leaders including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz,

Incumbent German chancellor and SPD candidate Olaf Scholz called the outcome of the general election in Germany on Sunday (February 23) “a bitter result” and a defeat for his party. Could these jumping mice change how astronauts exercise?

A reform of Germany's constitutionally enshrined debt brake, which limits public borrowing, would be discussed by the leaders of the conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) in coalition talks,

The German chancellor, who defied calls to step aside after his government fell apart, is down in the polls but insisting he can still win.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has voted in a German election that comes after his governing coalition collapsed last year. Scholz then lost a confidence vote, forcing President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to dis