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  • Friday, 6 December, 2019
    SPD leaders ‘realistic’ on remaining in Merkel coalition

    Incoming duo outline political programme that would take party markedly to the left

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2019
    Germany’s SPD set to stick with Merkel coalition

    New leadership softens demand for changes in motion to be put to party congress

  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2019
    SPD minister warns party not to end German coalition

    Hubertus Heil rejects drift to left and cautions over being seen to ‘flee’ government

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2019
    Tail RiskTommy Stubbington
    Bond investors sniff chance of German spending shift

    Prices dip on cracks in ‘black zero’ fiscal policy but long-term impact is unclear

  • Monday, 2 December, 2019
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Travails of German left spell end of a political era

    Change of SPD leadership heralds a broader shift in alignment

  • Sunday, 1 December, 2019
    Social Democratic Party Germany
    Germany’s ruling coalition shaken by new SPD election

    Leftwing leaders have threatened to lead party out of alliance with Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc

  • Sunday, 1 December, 2019
    Instant InsightTony Barber
    SPD result heralds the end of Germany’s ‘grand coalition’

    Leadership vote looks likely to hasten Merkel’s exit and bring the Green party into power

  • Saturday, 30 November, 2019
    Blow to Merkel as leftwingers win SPD leadership

    Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken’s victory raises doubts over German coalition

  • Saturday, 30 November, 2019
    Germany’s far-right AfD elects East German as new leader

    Tino Chrupalla pledges to follow moderate course and appeal to middle-of the-road voters

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  • Friday, 29 November, 2019
    Social Democratic Party Germany
    Germany’s SPD to name new leader after bitter battle

    Final vote will signal whether party plans to keep faith with or abandon grand coalition

  • Thursday, 28 November, 2019
    Simon Tilford
    Germany falls out of love with economic orthodoxy

    Growing numbers of policymakers and voters back increased investment at home

  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2019
    EU defence
    Merkel warns Europe cannot defend itself without Nato

    German chancellor’s comments a sharp rebuke to Macron who called alliance ‘brain-dead’

  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2019
    Constanze Stelzenmüller
    Power struggle to lead Germany’s CDU has been postponed

    Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer’s flash of steel at the party conference has won her time

  • Monday, 25 November, 2019
    Germany
    Trump’s Germany envoy hits out at Berlin over Huawei

    Richard Grenell slams suggestion US companies pose similar threat to Chinese

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    Kramp-Karrenbauer tells rivals to ‘put up or shut up’

    Frontrunner to be next German chancellor admits to tough first year as party leader

  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2019
    Merkel faces party revolt over Huawei’s role in German 5G rollout

    MPs dismayed that chancellor will not formally exclude Chinese group

  • Monday, 18 November, 2019
    German economy
    German unions and businesses call for investment boost

    Angela Merkel’s government under pressure to abandon policy of balanced budgets

  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2019
    Alternative für Deutschland
    Leading AfD lawmaker ousted as committee chair

    Unprecedented move signals German political establishment is losing patience with party

  • Sunday, 10 November, 2019
    German ruling parties reach deal on pensions

    Tensions over payments for those on low incomes were a threat to coalition

  • Sunday, 10 November, 2019
    Wolfgang Münchau
    Europe should be wary of Olaf Scholz’s proposals

    The German finance minister’s proposition on EU deposit insurance are not quite what they seem

  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
    Tony Barber
    Germany’s eurozone gambit could meet a swift death

    Building a more effective, closely united Europe has never presented a bigger challenge

  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
    Germany
    Fall of the Berlin Wall: fear and euphoria of first East German to cross the border

    On 30th anniversary of momentous night, citizen of former GDR recalls her brief visit to the west

  • Thursday, 7 November, 2019
    German defence minister urges shift in security approach

    Kramp-Karrenbauer calls for more military spending and a greater international role

  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2019
    Social Democratic Party Germany
    Germany’s SPD defends record as coalition reaches halfway point

    Party still faces vote on whether to continue with deal keeping Angela Merkel in office

  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2019
    European banking union
    German eurozone banking plan wins cautious backing

    European policymakers consider plan for common deposit reinsurance scheme 

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