Germany: What can Chancellor Olaf Scholz still get done?
Chancellor Olaf Scholz is determined to use his last weeks in office with a minority government to pass what he believes are ...
Who is Friedrich Merz, Germany's opposition leader who is gunning for Olaf Scholz's job?
The collapse of Germany’s ’traffic light’ coalition government headed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown the focus on ...
Friedrich Merz: German Conservative Gunning To Become Chancellor
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire former corporate lawyer who promises a return to his CDU party's conservative roots as an alternative ...
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Germany’s Chancellor Scholz announces he is firing his finance minister, which could undermine his three-party coalition
Germany’s Chancellor Scholz announces he is firing his finance minister, which could undermine his three-party coalition BERLIN -- Germany’s Chancellor Scholz announces he is firing his ...
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The break-up of Scholz’s coalition government signals the end of Germany’s old economic model
The coalition could not agree how to fund new support for Ukraine and failed to fully implement the ‘Zeitenwende’. A new ...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fires Finance Minister Christian Lindner, leaving ruling coalition in disarray
The three-year-old union between Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens and Lindner’s Free Democratic Party (FDP) ...
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Germany's ruling coalition collapses as Chancellor Scholz fires finance minister
The three-year-old union between ... scheduled in March. Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced Wednesday he had dismissed Finance Minister Christian Lindner, bringing an end to Germany's ruling ...
Germany: Scholz open to new talks with CDU leader Merz
A party ally says Chancellor Scholz would be open to talks with Friedrich Merz on when to move toward new elections — but only after dealing with urgent business in parliament. Merz earlier said this ...