Chancellors of Germany

 The business wing of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives on Saturday vowed to block certain projects included in this week's coalition agreement with the Social Democrats (SPD), as tensions roiled both political blocs, Reuters reported. 

The shock decision comes after senior members of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) pressured their leader in to waiving the post of foreign minister. 

It comes after Angela Merkel's conservatives and the SPD agreed to form a coalition government on Wednesday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will talk with European Council President Donald Tusk and the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, according to the Bulgarian National Television. 

Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat (SPD) who is mayor of Hamburg, is set to become German Finance Minister in a new coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, German news agency DPA reported on Wednesday.

Top Social Democrat (SPD) negotiators said on Feb. 7 via social media that they had reached a deal with German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives on forming a new coalition government.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) reached agreement on energy and agriculture on Feb. 3, but were still in dispute over healthcare during talks to form a government, more than four months after the election.

When Helga Weyhe began work at her beloved bookshop, the Red Army was on the march towards her east German town, Hitler still clung to power and Sartre had just published “No Exit”

Chancellor Angela Merkel called Jan. 26 for a quick end to the last stretch of tortuous negotiations to forge a government for Germany, in a race against time to stop her power slipping away at home and abroad.

European leaders will be forced to bow to public opposition to migration and concern over terrorism threats in 2018, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after meeting Angela Merkel's Bavarian allies in the German region Friday afternoon.

Conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, under pressure after three months of failing to form a new ruling coalition, on Dec. 31 vowed to address growing social divisions as she worked rapidly to build a stable German government.