Olaf Scholz wants to win back workers who defected to the populist far right. Success could make him a model for Social Democrats everywhere. By Katrin Bennhold BERLIN — Last December, as he was ...

The joint pledge aligns with Merz’s controversial push to extend the Anglo-French nuclear deterrent to the rest of Europe.

Facing its worst crisis since World War II, Europe is looking for leadership. Olaf Scholz is trying to take up the role, but faces a tepid response. By Erika Solomon BERLIN — Four days after ...

After eight months in office, Olaf Scholz is still struggling to find his footing, drawing questions over a tax scandal and criticism of his response to a Holocaust remark made at his side.

These and a thousand other memorials and rituals are expressions of Germany’s Erinnerungskultur, a “memory culture” built up ...

NEW YORK — Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany gets right to the point when asked why his country will not send battle tanks to Ukraine: It is “a very dangerous war,” he said.

Item 1 of 5 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in a government declaration about the current situation after the end of the so-called "Traffic ...

Olaf Scholz will try to repair Germany’s credibility in the Ukraine crisis when he meets President Biden on Monday. Next on his agenda: Kyiv and Moscow.

The day before he is scheduled to meet President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, visited Kyiv on Monday to promise full support to Ukraine in the case of a ...

The German government has announced an agreement on its budget for 2025 and a stimulus package for Europe’s largest economy, easing a monthslong squabble that threatened to upend Chancellor Olaf ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Europe's biggest economy aims to reduce its dependence on Russian gas to zero as quickly as possible but reiterated his opposition to an immediate stop to imports.

Olaf Scholz, who replaced Angela Merkel as chancellor about three weeks ago, gave the traditional New Year’s Eve address for the first time and called for unity and vaccinations. By Christopher ...