The party’s stridently anti-migration election manifesto was called “Fortress Austria”, and its firebrand leader Herbert Kickl has called for mass deportations of migrants. Stocker’s ...

Following the February election victory of his CDU/CSU alliance, Merz quickly struck a deal to forge a new government with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) of the now caretaker Chancellor ...

The Social Democrats have insisted tonight that it has always been the case that committee positions are allocated proportionately based on the results of the general election. The party earlier ...

BERLIN - Germany's future government of conservatives and centre-left Social Democrats on Wednesday agreed on measures aimed at curbing illegal migration, including rejecting asylum seekers at ...

Under the heading "Responsibility for Germany", the Christian Democrats, Christian Socialists and Social Democrats have agreed on a number of measures, including the creation of a digital ministry.

Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy has ruled that Dublin Bay South TD Eoin Hayes will be counted as part of the Social Democrats for the divvying up of top committee jobs, despite remaining suspended ...

Merz turned to the Social Democrats, Scholz's centre-left party, to put together a coalition with a parliamentary majority. Merz will see his CDU party control the country's major ministries ...

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The leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union party Friedrich Merz has sealed a deal to form a new government with the country’s Social Democrats. The new government’s priorities are to ...