Angela Merkel

The centre-left leader is poised to succeed Angela Merkel after securing a coalition deal.

Fresh restrictions will be introduced in areas with high Covid hospitalisation rates, officials say.

Chancellor Merkel bows out from her role at the EU's helm, praised as Europe's "compass".

A dispute over whether EU law has supremacy over national laws overshadows the Brussels meeting.

The Taliban takeover has caused a massive shock to an economy that was just about surviving.

Coalition governments are rare in the UK. Germany has had nothing but them since the end of the war.

Armin Laschet is facing mounting unrest within his party, after their historic election defeat.

The election is over but months of talks are just getting started to see who will be chancellor.

The two main rivals for the German chancellorship claim a mandate to govern after a tight election.

Newspapers across Europe are watching the knife-edge results in Germany with a high degree of concern for the country's - and continent's - future course.

While voting patterns are changing, none of the front-running parties can be described as radical.

The result is tight - both the centre-left and the conservatives say they will try to form a coalition.

The election race could barely be tighter as people vote to decide who will run Europe's biggest economy.

The outgoing leader strongly endorses her party's candidate Armin Laschet in an unusually tight race.