SPD

From 1998 to 2005, Gerhard Schröder headed a 'red-green coalition' which included his SPD and the Greens. After he lost elections against Angela Merkel's CDU in 2005, he became a highly paid representative for Russian companies. His position on Ukraine now has consequences.

Just a few weeks ago, almost everyone predicted another bad defeat for Germany's Social-Democratic Party SPD, for good reasons. For several years, the party had…

Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) has been in a struggle for survival for years now. It has a star candidate for the upcoming elections, but Olaf Scholz…

Franziska Giffey asked Chancellor Angela Merkel to accept her resignation as Family Minister on Wednesday. The reason is a plagiarism scandal that has been dragging on for a long time. In spite of the problem she does not want to give up her candidacy for Governing Mayor of Berlin.

It is hard to take the suspense. On Sunday, state elections will be taking place in Rhineland-Palatinate. For three decades, the center-left Social Democrats…

The SPD in Berlin now has a new leadership, consisting of Franziska Giffey and Read Saleh. With the change at the top, the party now has one more problem on a…

In Berlin, Sawsan Chebli, the city state's State Secretary for Federal Affairs and Civic Participation, is putting Governing Mayor Müller in an awkward position. It is not the first time.

The nomination was not a surprise at all. Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the most popular politician the SPD has, is the right person for the…

In Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), Hans-Jochen Vogel was one of the most important personalities for decades. The former First Mayor of Munich and…

Governing Mayor Michael Müller will not run for the chair of his party, the Berlin Social Democrats (SPD) anymore. Germany's Family Minister Franziska Giffey is supposed to take over.