Mr. Merz turned to the Social Democrats, Scholz’s center-left party, to put together a coalition with a parliamentary majority. It’s still going to be a little while before parliament can ...

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 ...

The Social Democrats have used a seat won by a TD later suspended from the parliamentary party to get an Oireachtas committee chair role, which comes with a €10,000 per year bonus. Oireachtas ...

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 ...

Social Democrats are seeking to include a TD suspended from the parliamentary party in the calculus of its numbers for forming Oireachtas committees. The roles of chair of Oireachtas committees ...

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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 ...

Friedrich Merz of the CDU is expected to become the next chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz after Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and center-left Social Democrats agreed to ...