The conservatives and Social Democrats also banned leaks, according to a leaked copy of the rulebook seen by POLITICO.

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Cottbus, Germany, a modest-sized east German city near the Polish border, with its historic town square whose buildings date back as far as the 15th century, might seem a strange place to visit for ...

If you saw a particular Sunday network-television-news program on Feb. 16, you heard the host say that in Germany, “free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.” Yes, you read that correctly: ...

Buoyed by an effective grassroots campaign and a youth vote in its favor, the radical left-wing party almost doubled its ...

The results of Germany’s general election show that the center-right political party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), ...

Well, of course not. But Germany's accidental chancellor has a crucial role to play in history, like it or not ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader ...

Free Expression: Alternative for Germany more than doubled its 2021 vote share to 20% in the 2025 election, but the winning Christian Democratic Union, which sees the AfD as a pariah, has said it ...