German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday defended his decision to fire finance minister Christian Lindner, which prompted ...

Germany’s center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced he is firing Finance Minister Christian Lindner, which could ...

Germany’s fragile government has collapsed after Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister on Wednesday evening. The Chancellor ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his Finance Minister Christian Lindner on Wednesday after weeks of wrangling over the ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has sacked Finance Minister Christian Lindner of the pro-business Free Democrats, a government ...

Germany’s Chancellor Scholz announces he is firing his finance minister, which could undermine his three-party coalition ...

Joerg Kukies, Germany's new finance minister, is a former investment banker who has long been one of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's closest advisers, most recently as a state secretary.

Joerg Kukies, a member of Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats and a close ally of the chancellor, will be named Germany's new finance minister, government sources told AFP on Thursday.

(Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP) FILE - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck and Finance Minister Christian Lindner, left, listen to a debate about Germany ...

The three-year-old union between Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens and Lindner’s Free Democratic Party (FDP) ...

Political turmoil comes as Germany’s economy is expected to shrink in 2024 for the second year in a row, or at best stagnate.