The Bundestag election has entered an entirely new phase due to the political shift within the Union parties in the final ...

Framed as the troublemaker in an unpopular coalition, the FDP is mostly polling below Germany’s electoral threshold of 5%. If ...

So while we’re fairly sure Friedrich Merz’s conservatives will be in charge — the outcome seems almost nailed on according to the polls — that’s just where the story begins, as the design of Germany’s ...

Views differ on whether that would work in Germany’s political system. But as one official puts it, “culture eats structure for breakfast”—meaning that if Germany really wants to get ...

Without naming Musk, he pointed out that Germany’s political system allows for freedom of expression, which “also applies to multibillionaires.” But the chancellor used sharper than usual ...

Germany’s political shift is rooted in deepening economic ... further weakening Germany’s traditional party system. Germany’s snap election on February 23 will be a critical test of these ...

[Photo/Agencies] The battle lines in Germany's political landscape were clearly drawn this weekend in the small eastern town of Riesa. As the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party ...

In December, American billionaire and Trump confidant Elon Musk posted a six-word sentence on his social-media platform, X, that jolted Germany’s political landscape. “Only the AfD can save ...