The ripple effect that Germany’s election could spell across Britain, the US and EU German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) after what he called ...

Most of the focus in Sunday's poll had been on how the outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz's SPD would fare in Hamburg after the party suffered its worst nationwide result in federal elections last week.

(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) From left: Lars Klingbeil, co-leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), German Chancellor Olaf ...

Meanwhile the governing centre-left SPD has slumped to third place in what looks set to be a disastrous result for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party. The party are already describing the result as a ...

This one’s categoric. The SPD, Germany’s oldest party, had the worst result in a national election in well over a century. After the results came in, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced he will not serve ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) believes he can return to office after the February 23 election. But, the conservative CDU/CSU alliance is ahead in the latest ARD Deutschlandtrend poll. Given the ...

Merz's conservatives and Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) agreed to loosen the country's constitutional "brake" on borrowing as Berlin seeks to ramp up defense spending. "Whether we will ...

Image: Olaf Scholz's SPD party collapsed to the third largest party - with 16.4% of the vote. Pic: AP Meanwhile Christian Lindner - FDP party leader and former finance minister, whose dismissal by ...

A 95-year-old woman who helped raise almost £2 million by setting up a charity shop met the King at a celebration for the heroes of humanitarian causes. Concern Worldwide volunteer Nellie Hill, of ...

The Social Democrats (SPD) conceded defeat, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz calling the result "bitter." He was speaking to his supporters in Berlin. (Source: Berliner Modell via Associated Press) ...