(Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gives a statement after a meeting with government leaders in Berlin, ...

In his statement following the dismissal, Scholz partly justified the decision by noting that he had asked Lindner to relax ...

Political turmoil comes as Germany’s economy is expected to shrink in 2024 for the second year in a row, or at best stagnate.

The three-year-old union between Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens and Lindner’s Free Democratic Party (FDP) ...

Germany's Scholz Fires His Finance Minister as His Coalition Collapses BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced Wednesday he was firing Finance Minister Christian ...

The firing came after days of political negotiation between the key members of Germany’s ruling “traffic light” coalition government – Scholz of the Social Democratic Party, Lindner of the ...

Germany’s center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced he is firing Finance Minister Christian Lindner, which could undermine the ruling three-party coalition that relies on Lindner’s pro ...

However, it has struggled through internal disputes worsened by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the rise of the ...

Germany's ruling coalition collapsed on Wednesday (November 6) as Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance minister and paved the way for a snap election, triggering political chaos in Europe's ...