Germany’s governing coalition has collapsed after disagreements over the country’s weak economy led Chancellor Olaf Scholz to sack his finance minister.

The government coalition fell apart on Wednesday when Scholz fired his finance minister, as years of tensions culminated in a row over how to plug a multi-billion-euro hole in the budget and revive Europe's largest economy, headed for its second year of ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz is to make a government statement in the German Bundestag on Wednesday next week, dpa has learned, after the collapse of his three-party coalition. Scholz has announced a plan to hold a vote of confidence in January after he fired Christian Lindner as finance minister on Wednesday,

Germany's ruling coalition has collapsed after Chancellor Olaf Scholz dismissed Finance Minister Christian Lindner just hours after Donald Trump's US election win.