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Former German health minister Jens Spahn is under pressure over his procurement of expensive coronavirus masks after a leak ...
The number of reprimands issued in the Bundestag reached its highest postwar level during the last parliament. Two-thirds of ...
The government and party leaders have made clear they are determined to squeeze trillions of euros out of the working ...
The first half of 2025 showed a dramatic decline in asylum applications, falling as much as 50% from last year’s figures, ...
Two major wildfires have been burning in the eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia. Meanwhile, several people were ...
The Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), a pro-free market, anti-EU, anti-mass migration party, placed second in Germany’s recent parliamentary elections, earning nearly 21 percent of the vote to the ...
The German parliament is seeking to assess the political impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Former Health Minister Jens Spahn ...
Germany’s incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced Wednesday his center-right Christian Democratic Union made a deal to form a governing coalition with the center-left Social Democrats.
Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—collectively known as the Union—took power after securing the largest block of votes in ...
Friedrich Merz, the leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union, is expected to become Germany’s next leader under the agreement, replacing outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz.The parties ...
Germany ‘will suffer massive damage’ Much of the criticism of Merz is coming from his conservative bloc’s youth organization, the Young Union. Johannes Winkel, the chair of the organization who also ...