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Climate Retreat in Germany?
“The End of Germany’s Climate Crusade.” That’s how a Politico headline last week described the country’s national elections held this past Sunday. The election was still days away, but opinion polls had already made clear that “one of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments will fall,” Karl Mathiesen wrote.
The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis.
In Germany’s special election Sunday, seven months earlier than the normal date because the trio-run government collapsed, there were a full  29 parties
Debate over multibillion-Euro top-up to military fund is playing a central role in exploratory coalition discussions
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany (AfD) party now firmly established in German politics.
Germany’s conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party nearly doubled its share of the vote from the last election to secure a strong second-place finish. Nuclear energy may be the big winner.
Germany's Northern Data said on Thursday that it has started the process to uplist to the Prime Standard listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2025. The technology company said it intends to complete the uplisting by next year,
Climate change has provided both the means and the impetus for growers to plant the grape. The wines are getting better and better.
Friedrich Merz has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent's security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and Russia's war on Ukraine​.