Martin Schulz

Judging by a recent statement by SYRIZA MEP Stelios Kouloglou, the governing party would have liked to have seen a Geert Wilders victory in the Netherlands, in the sense that this would have caused turbulence in Europe, prompting Greece's lenders to seek a political solution with Athens.

Germany's center-left Social Democrats (SPD) remained steady at 32 percent support over the past week, one percentage point behind Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), according to a poll published on March 15.

Hours before the EuroGroup meeting in Brussels, the leader of the German SPD party and former European Parliament Martin Schulz said anyone who turned Europe and Germany against each other were committing a sin against the future of the country. “It is not a wise thing to reiterate the discussion about Greece’s exit from the eurozone.

Social democrat candidate Martin Schulz has better prospects to become Germany's Chancellor in the election this autumn, a new poll shows.

Some 49% of Germans wish that Schulz would get the office, while just 38% would prefer Merkel to keep it.

Social Democratic Party (SPD) chancellor candidate Martin Schulz has warned against fresh speculation of a Greek exit from the euro area saying it is putting European unity at stake.

"Anyone flirting with the idea of Grexit risks breaking Europe apart," the former president of the European Parliament told Die Welt on Monday.

Billed as Germany's "anti-Trump", center-left former foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was elected on Feb. 12 as the new ceremonial head of state.

The 61-year-old, who regularly polls as Germany's most popular politician, will represent the EU's top economy abroad and act as a kind of moral arbiter for the nation.

The Social Democrats (SPD) are narrowing the edge of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of German Chancellor Angela Merkel before the general election in September, a survey shows.

The CDU would get 33% and the SPD would receive 32% of the vote, the figures projecting the center-left party's highest result since April 2006.

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) would beat Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives if an election was held today, a poll said on Feb. 6, showing the center-left party was still building on positive momentum after electing former European Parliament head Martin Schulz as leader. 

Former European Parliament President Martin Schulz has become the German Social Democrats' Chancellor candidate for the general election this year.

The SPD party has also officially nominated him as its leader, with a formal election due in the party in the middle of March, according to the Frakfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Social Democrat Martin Schulz would receive the same level of support as German Chancellor Angela Merkel if voters could vote directly for the head of government, showed a survey of ARD TV carried out on Wednesday, cited by Reuters.

Schulz and Merkel have the same level of electoral support - 41%, reported BTA.