, adding to evidence that they are pulling ahead of Chancellor Angela Merkel's bloc before a national

government, while Merkel stays on in a caretaker role until a successor is sworn in.... Only one of

bloc.... The two parties have already signaled that they are willing to discuss forging a three-way

election will now be about who will succeed Merkel to lead a new government, Soeder said.... Bavarian

claims they are sending people over the border for revenge over the Brussels bloc’s sanctions....

The European Commission is growing unhappy over Germany not meeting the requirements of the bloc's

In a humiliating defeat for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mediterranean nations rejected her

Pro-Brexit think tank Facts4EU used figures taken from Eurostat, the bloc’s statistics division

That gives them 118 seats in the Bundestag.... The far-right Alternative for Germany — which no one else wants to work with — received 10.3%.... This was about 2 percentage points less than in 2017, when it first entered parliament. Due to Germany’s complicated electoral system, a full breakdown of the result by seats in parliament is still pending....

Hans-Olaf Henkel was commenting on the revelation that the European Union currently has 51 ongoing infringement proceedings against Germany.... The revelation has prompted stinging criticism of both Peter Altmaier, Germany’s Economics Minister, and Finance Minister and SPD leader Olaf Scholz.Mr Henkel, the former President of the Federation of German Industries( BDI), who stepped down from the European Parliament in 2019, said in both cases the rebukes were fully justified.He toldExpress.co.uk: