Chancellor candidate and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reacts at the FAZ "Readers' Forum". Boris Roessler/dpa German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday that Europe should take a confident stance ...

Increasing numbers in his own center-left party say he should, arguing for a more charismatic leader who might better their electoral chances. By Christopher F. Schuetze and Jim Tankersley Christopher ...

Six years after being passed over in favour of Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission, Manfred Weber is ...

IN MOST DEMOCRACIES a “snap” election might be expected a few weeks hence. In Germany, it will take three and a half months. Party lists must be drawn up, ballot papers printed, municipalities and ...

KASSEL, Germany (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to see a strong and sovereign Europe, he said on Monday, ahead of hastily arranged talks in Paris following signals that the United ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/LM Otero/AP The costs of net-zero climate policies ...

MUNICH (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that the time has come for the creation of an “armed forces of Europe," because the U.S. may no longer be counted on to support the ...

Scholz pays second wartime visit to Kyiv Says Germany will remain Kyiv's biggest backer in Europe Ukraine a key issue in German election campaign Visit comes as Russian battlefield gains accelerate ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for the introduction of Europe-wide measures to increase uptake of electric vehicles, in a speech at Ford Motor Corp’s factory in Cologne, just weeks after the ...

Germany must be "an anchor of stability" for Europe, Chancellor Olaf Scholz says, after his coalition struck a 2025 budget deal following tough talks that nearly toppled the government. "We must not ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, pictured on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, criticized the comments of U.S. Vice President JD Vance. At the second day of the Munich ...

Second, look at the opposition. Mr Scholz may be the most unpopular chancellor of modern times. But his main opponent, Friedrich Merz, the cdu/csu candidate, fares little better (see chart), and he is ...