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Germany's centre-left SPD and their chancellor candidate, Olaf Scholz, have secured a narrow win over their centre-right CDU rivals in the elections held on Sunday. SPD have won 25.7 percent of the vote. Angela Merkel’s CDU party and their candidate,...

Millions of voters in Germany head to the polls on Sunday to elect the new chancellor who will usher the post-Merkel era. Opinion polls show the race for the chancellery headed for a photo finish, with Merkel’s CDU-CSU conservative alliance...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras praised his achievements and those of his administration during the years he has been in power in a speech to Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin on Saturday. "When I faced the biggest dilemma that...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has informed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party that she will not seek re-election as its chairwoman in December, it is being reported. Her decision comes after her party sustained heavy losses in regional elections that...

Greek hopes of debt relief were strengthened on Wednesday with the likely appointment of a center-left finance minister in Berlin, as German politicians finally agreed on a new grand-coalition government. After more than four months of deadlock, Chancellor Angela Merkel will remain...

Leading politicians from the junior partner in Germany's coalition government expressed their support to the idea that Germany should pay reparations from World War II to Greece, saying that it is their country's moral and legal duty. In an...

German Vice Chancellor and Social Democratic Party (SPD) President Sigmar Gabriel welcomed the Eurogroup’s agreement on the Greek issue during a visit to Madrid. “Here, everybody was relieved that it was possible after all to reach a major breakthrough...

Even before the appointment of the new coalition government, the German Social Democrats are making their intentions for Greece clear. Carsten Schneider, the parliamentary spokesman of SPD, spoke to the Financial Times and clarified: “It is evident that there will...

DW pays a tribute to the Greek candidates in the upcoming German elections. Stella Kyrgiane - Ephremidis has great chances of being elected as a member of the German parliament. She grew up in Württemberg, went to a German school ,...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a resounding favorite to win re-election on Sept. 22, found herself trying to defend her policy of propping up Greece with bailouts while her rival, Peer Steinbrueck said she was administering "deadly doses" of austerity,...