Germany's conservative parties and far-right AfD lead in the polls, with the CDU’s Friedrich Merz likely to become chancellor ...

Framed as the troublemaker in an unpopular coalition, the FDP is mostly polling below Germany’s electoral threshold of 5%. If ...

The so-called 'Traffic Light Coalition' – made up of Scholz’s Social Democrats, the liberal FDP and the Greens – collapsed on ...

"He has broken my trust too many times", the chancellor said of his Finance Minister Christian Lindner. View on euronews ...

POLITICO has processed 35 years’ worth of election data to find out why this month’s vote is messier than ever ― and what will happen next.

Lindner had served as finance minister but was dismissed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz in November, leading to the collapse of the governing coalition and paving the way for a snap election scheduled ...

Germany's budget committee has called Finance Minister Joerg Kukies to approve an additional 3 billion euros ($3.13 billion) ...

Election campaign posters of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, German Minister for Economy and Climate Robert Habeck, center, and former German finance minister Christian Lindner, the protagonists ...

Olaf Scholz fought with his former finance minister ... In November, he sacked his finance minister, Christian Lindner, partly because Lindner opposed Scholz's plan to fund the top-up with extra ...

Olaf Scholz, the chancellor, has lost a vote of confidence and ... Back in November, a bitter dispute over how to balance the budget for 2025 ended in Mr Scholz dismissing Christian Lindner, his ...

Olaf Scholz, the chancellor ... how to balance the budget for 2025 ended in Mr Scholz dismissing Christian Lindner, his finance minister, and the head of the Free Democrats (FDP).