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President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved Germany's lower house of parliament on Friday to pave the way for snap elections on February 23, following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Donald Trump have agreed that the conflict in Ukraine has been raging for too long and that a “fair, just, and sustainable peace” must be achieved as soon as possible, a spokesperson for the government in Berlin said.

The co-leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has said that Berlin should reconsider its membership of NATO if the western military alliance fails to consider the interests of all European nations, adding that it is “currently not a defensive alliance.”

The visit comes weeks before a no-confidence vote in the Bundestag.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday kicked off his SPD Social Democrats’ election campaign and proposed a “Made in Germany” bonus for companies which invest here.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s call with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a “strategic mistake” that weakened European unity in the face of Moscow’s war against Ukraine, Estonia’s top diplomat said on Monday.

The leaders of France, Germany and Poland published a joint statement on Thursday expressing their concern over the political situation in Georgia.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance minister on Wednesday and said he will hold a parliamentary confidence vote in the government in January, triggering political chaos in Europe’s largest economy hours after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election.

In Zelenskyy’s five-point victory plan, NATO membership is at the forefront.

German newspaper Zeit reported on Tuesday that a Scholz-Putin phone call was being planned.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday called on major powers including China, India, Brazil and South Africa to take greater responsibility in resolving the war in Ukraine.

TVP World spoke to Piotr Kaczyński, an EU expert at the Geremek Foundation.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a renewed effort to bring peace to Ukraine, adding that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had both agreed in recent talks on the need for a new peace conference that would include Russia.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed to step up deportations following the deadly mass stabbing in Solingen, western Germany.

Almost six in ten Poles - 58.2% - believe their country should seek reparations from its western neighbor over the massive damage Germany inflicted during World War II, a survey has found.

Donald Tusk, Poland’s Prime Minister, has said that Polish-German relations are on the right track after years marked by disputes over history and EU policy.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his coalition suffered a major defeat in the European Parliament elections, with commentators foreseeing intensified political battles and a challenging road ahead for his government.

NATO’s recent move to strengthen its eastern border is aimed at deterring Russia, said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday.

The leaders of France and Germany have said that Ukraine should be permitted to strike military sites within Russia from which missiles were being fired at Ukrainian territory, but not any other targets.

He expressed his admiration for the country’s progress with EU accession talks.