OLAF SCHOLZ

The Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania plan to send U.S.-made anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine.

Government and business leaders have urged global cooperation on climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and the economic recovery at the World Economic Forum’s virtual gathering this week.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said "borders must not be moved by force" in Europe.

New German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for a “paradigm shift” in the way the world approaches climate policy, saying his country would leverage its presidency of the Group of Seven industrial nations to push for standards to fight global warming.

Borrowing costs for the German government continued their push higher on Wednesday, with the benchmark 10-year bund yield trading in positive territory for the first time in nearly three years.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez are meeting to align their left-wing governments; agendas and plan how to boost progressive policies in the 27-nation European Union.

Germany’s president has called for a debate over plans for compulsory coronavirus vaccinations in the country, saying such a drastic measure needs to be thoroughly justified.

Germany’s ruling parties are hitting the brakes on plans for compulsory coronavirus vaccinations, saying it may take months for lawmakers to properly debate the contentious measure in parliament.

Germany’s leaders have agreed to toughen requirements for entry to restaurants and bars.

Germany’s biggest governing party says it aims for a final decision by the end of March on the introduction of a universal vaccine mandate against COVID-19.

Germany has found itself facing a series of challenges in its relations with Russia and China since taking office last month that are testing the new government’s foreign policy mettle.

Germany’s biggest opposition party says it will support the reelection of President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

The United States and Germany say that Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine’s border poses an “immediate and urgent challenge" to European security and that any intervention will draw severe consequences.

Germany’s environmentalist Greens have come out in favor of a second term for President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Germany’s health minister says the country’s coronavirus infection rate is likely two to three times higher than statistics currently show.

Germany’s health minister says the government has reached its goal of 30 million additional immunizations against COVID-19 by year's end.

Germany’s health minister says the proportion of coronavirus infections with the new omicron variant will increase sharply in the days ahead.

President Joe Biden’s message to the American people on confronting the omicron coronavirus variant comes with a heavy dose of cajoling.

Russia's natural gas pipeline to Europe is built and filling with gas.

Germany has announced new restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the new omicron variant of COVID-19.

Michael Sandel thinks that the Biden Administration is fulfilling its most important task: breaking with the faith that American meritocracy works.

Heading into the Christmas week, nuclear energy has become a big thorn in the side of the European Union.

Members of Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union, the party of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, have chosen prominent conservative Friedrich Merz as its new leader.

The seats in Germany’s parliament will have to be rearranged after lawmakers backed the wish of one party in the new coalition government not to sit next to the far-right Alternative for Germany.

European Union leaders are pressing Russia to enter peace talks with Ukraine.

The police conducted raids in the city of Dresden and the nearby town of Heidenau come after a group allegedly organized online to kill Saxony's state premier, Michael Kretschmer.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging European Union leaders to swiftly impose new sanctions on Russia before it invades his country.

Far-right anti-vaccination activists are suspected of plotting to kill Saxony leader Michael Kretschmer.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz is vowing that his new government will do everything for Germany to overcome the coronavirus pandemic and let people return to their normal lives.

Germany is expelling two Russian diplomats after a court concluded that Moscow was behind the killing of a Chechen man in Berlin two years ago.

She was the first woman to hold the office of Chancellor—and the first postwar Chancellor to leave the office on her own terms.

The German government has approved 60 billion euros in funding to be used for combating climate change and modernizing the country.

Germany’s new government says it is extending the country’s current incentive payments for buyers of electric and hybrid cars by a year.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has stressed that Europe won’t tolerate attempts at undermining the territorial integrity of its nations and said that diplomatic tools like the Normandy Format should be used to de-escalate tensions after Russia massed troops near Ukraine’s border.

Party delegates from Germany’s center-left Social Democrats, the senior partner in the country’s new coalition government, have elected three top officials.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has held a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris as their governments work to deescalate tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

A close aide of Angela Merkel's has told a German news outlet that the former chancellor wants to write an autobiographical book explaining her most important political decisions.

Merkel is stepping down after 16 years in power, as the German parliament elects Scholz as the next leader.

Angela Merkel is credited with raising Germany’s profile and influence and working to hold a fractious European Union together.

Scholz, a member of the socialist SPD party, will lead a three-party coalition with the Greens and the pro-business FDP party.

Olaf Scholz has taken over as Germany’s new chancellor at the head of a three-party coalition government, ending the 16-year era of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Olaf Scholz has become Germany's ninth post-World War II chancellor, opening a new era for the European Union’s most populous nation and largest economy after Angela Merkel’s 16-year tenure.

Social Democratic politician Olaf Scholz will take over from center-right Angela Merkel as chancellor and will lead a coalition of three different parties in government.

A three-party deal to form a new German government under center-left leader Olaf Scholz has cleared its final hurdle.

Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel has made what is likely her final appeal before leaving office next week for Germans to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

German Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz's center-left party has given its overwhelming approval to a deal to form a new government with environmentalist and pro-business parties.

Chancellor Angela Merkel describes the far-reaching measures as an act of "national solidarity".

"The situation is our country is serious," said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, calling the measure an "act of national solidarity."

Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Germans to stand up to hatred, at a military ceremony bidding her farewell after 16 years in office.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says people who aren’t vaccinated will soon be excluded from nonessential stores, restaurants and sports and cultural venues.

Germany’s next chancellor says he will back a proposal to mandate coronavirus vaccinations for everybody next year.

Olaf Scholz is set to become post-World War II Germany’s ninth chancellor, crowning a career that has seen him serve in a string of top government posts, after leading his party to an election comeback that appeared hugely unlikely just a few months ago.

A coalition deal has been announced in Germany after almost two months of talks following the country's federal election in September.

The three-way alliance is expected to be unveiled Wednesday and reportedly paves the way for center-left leader Olaf Scholz to replace longtime Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Three German parties have reached a deal to form a new government that will end the era of longtime Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Germany is inching toward the mark of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19.

Germany’s national disease control center has reported a record-high number of more than 50,000 daily coronavirus cases.

Germany’s Social Democrats, the country's main center-left party, is set to make the manager of its successful election campaign one of its leaders.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she is satisfied with the timing of her departure after 16 years at the helm of the country and is now looking forward to dedicating time to things she had to neglect during her chancellorship.

The German parliament will not extend the “epidemic situation of national scope” when it expires next month, but will keep in place certain measures to check the spread of the coronavirus.

Angela Merkel took a step closer to political retirement Tuesday after receiving her formal dismissal certificate from the post of chancellor after 16 years in office.

The three parties that hope to form Germany’s new government say they aim to have the country’s next chancellor in place in early December, but acknowledge that they face a complex task.

The once fearsome hawk has resigned as head of Germany’s Bundesbank. It is a signal that another species rules the roost now.

The head of Germany’s central bank has announced that he will step down after a decade at the helm.

In Britain as in the U.S., the upbeat optimist tends to triumph over the gloomy technocrat.

Brexit was named as one of the key reasons for the shortage of HGV drivers in the U.K., but there are deeper issues.

As negotiations continue, it helps that Germans have experience building coalitions and that the largest parties aren’t extreme.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has congratulated Olaf Scholz, the leader of the Social Democratic Party, on his party's election success.

Germany's political status quo is about to be overhauled.

<em>Cancel culture</em> is a murky term. As Anne Applebaum argues, the mob justice it can sometimes refer to is real, but the phrase is too broad and has been unhelpfully politicized.

CBS news foreign correspondent Chris Liversay reports the race to succeed Angela Merkel and her legacy as Germany's leader for 16 years. Then, Lilla Balint, an assistant professor of German in the Department of German at University of California, Berkeley joins Tanya Rivero on CBSN to discuss how a new government could shake up politics in Germany and across Europe.

Olaf Scholz is poised to be the first new leader of the country in 16 years.

Germany’s center-left candidate rooted his campaign in respect—and won.

It will likely take three parties to form a government. Two smaller parties — an environmentalist, progressive party and a libertarian party — appear to be banding together to call the shots.

Former President Trump returned to the campaign stage in Perry, Georgia, on Saturday on behalf of several Republican candidates running in statewide elections next year. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Greg Bluestein joins CBSN's Lana Zak with more on how Mr. Trump is deepening the divide among the state's Republican party.

Projections showed long-time leader Angela Merkel's party heading for its worst-ever result in a national election.

Congressional talks on police reform collapsed last week. But many communities are no longer waiting for federal legislation. Kris Van Cleave has more.

Germany's two largest parties have emerged from Sunday's election in what amounts to a dead heat, according to preliminary results.

German election exit polls indicate that the Social Democratic Party and the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union bloc are tied.

After 16 years in office, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is stepping down. Germans are headed to the polls today in what could be a potentially historic election.

Millions of Germans are heading to the polls on Sunday in an election that will change the face of Germany, and Europe.

Sunday's federal election will determine who will follow Merkel, who has served as Germany's chancellor for 16 years. The country's next government is expected to be a coalition of three parties.

About 20 million German voters were expected to turn to their phones or other online devices for app advice on which candidates to pick on Sunday.

CNBC takes a look at the main political figures that could shape the future of Europe's largest economy.

A significant number of German voters have not yet decided who to vote for in Sunday's upcoming election, making the outcome even more unpredictable.

Germany’s Green party has come a long way from the radical fringe group of the 1980s, moving into the mainstream and appealing to a wider swath of voters backing policies for tackling climate change. It has helped shape Germany’s exit from nuclear power and pushed for Europe’s industrial powerhouse to become a world leader in hydrogen technology. It headed into the Sept. 26 election in a strong position to be part of the next coalition government.

Social Democratic Party leader Olaf Scholz, the front-runner in the polls to succeed German Chancellor Angela Merkel, is credited for transforming Hamburg when he was the city's mayor.

Germany's election race stepped up a gear on Sunday night during a heated TV debate between the three contenders vying to lead the country after the Sept. 26 vote.

The election will mark the end of Angela Merkel's 15-year tenure as German chancellor. And polls point to a number of different outcomes.

It is the first time in 15 years that the SPD has overtaken the CDU/CSU alliance in the polls.

The clear up has barely begun after extensive flooding in Germany and beyond but already the costs — both human and economic — are staggering.

Heavy rain has fueled new floods in southeastern Germany and Austria, though not on the scale of last week's devastating onslaught.

Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Schuld, a village near Ahrweiler that was devastated by the flooding, later Sunday.

Financial leaders from the Group of 20 largest economies said they have come to an agreement on how to move forward on a "more stable and fairer international tax architecture."

Taxation is under the spotlight this weekend as finance ministers of the 20 most advanced economies in the world are gathered in Venice, Italy.

Germany’s Greens party has come a long way from the radical fringe group of the 1980s, moving into the mainstream and appealing to a wider swath of voters backing policies for tackling climate change. It has helped shape Germany’s exit from nuclear power and pushed for Europe’s industrial powerhouse to become a world leader in hydrogen technology. Now, it heads into the Sept. 26 election in a strong position to be part of the next coalition government, and perhaps even to lead it.

German finance minister Olaf Scholz says a minimum tax deal agreed by the G7 will "change the world".

Germany's finance minister on Wednesday welcomed an agreement requiring large companies in the European Union to reveal how much tax they paid in which country. Among the companies affected will be major international corporations such as Google and Amazon, which have used entities in low-tax countries such as Ireland and Luxembourg to reduce their tax burden elsewhere. “The new rules create greater transparency so that international corporations can't wiggle out of their tax obligations,” he added.

Officers responded to the Extended Stay America hotel in Lenexa on reports of a disturbance in a hotel room.

From left to right, Zhu Min, deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Treasury secretary, Olaf Scholz, Germany's finance minister, and Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), attend a panel session on the closing day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020.