(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Olaf Scholz, the former chancellor of Germany. 1975 – Joins the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Germany as a student. 1982-1988 – Deputy chairman of the SPD youth ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will be succeeded by conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz after his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), secured the largest vote share in Germany's ...

One day after Vice President JD Vance delivered a scathing speech to European leaders in Munich, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz took the same stage to offer an apparent rebuke to Vance’s remarks, ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected “outside” interference in the country’s elections, insisting that Germans would decide their democracy for themselves, as he hit back at comments made by US ...

Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man and leader of the Department of Government Efficiency, has engaged for weeks in a back-and-forth with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as a German election looms, ...

Musk came under fire for backing the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in an opinion piece in a German newspaper in December. The AfD is a political party considered far-right which is currently monitored ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz responded to criticism from billionaire Elon Musk. Musk called Scholz an "incompetent fool" and signaled his support for Germany's AfD party. In a new interview, Scholz ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz offered subtle criticism around billionaire Elon Musk’s influence on President-elect Trump early Tuesday, saying the nation’s fate will not be decided by “the owners of ...

The German parliament accepted Chancellor Olaf Scholz's invitation to withdraw its confidence in him and his government on Monday, clearing the way for an early election on Feb. 23 necessitated by the ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a no-confidence vote Monday in the country's Parliament, paving the way for a snap election in February next year. Confidence votes in Germany are relatively rare.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in the German parliament. It is the outcome Scholz had hoped for when he called for the confidence vote last week, analysts say. His aim: to ...

BERLIN—Embattled German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote on Monday, the first step in a sequence of events that will lead to early elections next year—and the latest symptom of mounting ...