The successor to East Germany's Communist Party has made a late surge two weeks before a national election after its leader ...

The European Parliament urged the European Union on Thursday to freeze direct budget support for Rwanda until it breaks links ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its ...

The authorities believe the crash, into a union’s strike-day demonstration, was a deliberate attack. The suspect is a 24-year ...

Given the current poll figures, this does not seem very realistic. In 2021, the SPD won the Bundestag election with 25.7% of the vote. In the current ARD Deutschlandtrend poll, it is down to 14%, ...

Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

BERLIN — The Berlin International Film Festival is kicking off on Thursday with the world premiere of Tom Tykwer’s “The Light ...

His comments, a week before Germany’s elections, seemed to specifically target efforts to sideline the hard-right Alternative for Germany.

The runner-up is likely to be the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which has long been excluded by other parties as a prospective coalition partner due to its extremism. The centre-left ...

Germany's constitution stipulates that the state should only spend as much as it collects. What is Germany's debt brake? Article 115 of the Basic Law, Germany's constitution, states that "revenues and ...