German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks, on the day he receives the 2025 Research and Innovation report by the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI), in Berlin, Germany February 26, 2025.

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz declared victory after his Christian Democrats won nearly 29% of the votes in the country’s federal election. Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party faced a historic defeat with the lowest vote share for the center-left party since 1949.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz votes in German election that comes after his governing coalition collapsed last year.

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A reform of Germany's constitutionally enshrined debt brake, which limits public borrowing, would be discussed by the leaders of the conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) in coalition talks,

Incumbent German chancellor and SPD candidate Olaf Scholz called the outcome of the general election in Germany on Sunday (February 23) “a bitter result” and a defeat for his party. Could these jumping mice change how astronauts exercise?

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the federal election result “bitter.” On Sunday, the SPD slumped to its worst election result since World War II.  (Source: Bloomberg)

The German chancellor, who defied calls to step aside after his government fell apart, is down in the polls but insisting he can still win.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz effectively ruled out serving together in the same cabinet, whatever the outcome of Sunday’s election.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and opposition leader Friedrich Merz will face off in a final head-to-head debate Wednesday, four days before the election, in a campaign overshadowed by the rise