Reconnecting the Democratic Party to the working class is an electoral and a moral imperative, and it will be my mission for ...

To build a majority government, Merz would be expected to reach out first to the SPD, though without Scholz, after he led Germany’s traditional workers’ party to its worst-ever result.

Thomas Black is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist writing about the industrial and transportation sectors. He was previously a Bloomberg News reporter covering logistics, manufacturing and private ...