Germany’s new parliament has elected as its speaker a conservative former minister. She called Tuesday for civilized debate ...

Sentiment brightened this month as businesses look to a ramp-up in defense and infrastructure spending to boost growth.

With their votes agreeing to a one-billion euro rearmament package, the class character of the Left Party is clearly exposed.

The interview was conducted on 25 February 2025 and appeared in Borderless on February 2025. What are some of the major issues in the backdrop of the German elections? In recent years, German society, ...

The real winners of the German election are the hard-right leader Alice Weidel and her White House friends, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance and Donald Trump. Whatever Friedrich Merz’s plans are, he must expect ...

Germany's upper house of parliament on Friday gave the final seal of approval to a massive spending package to build up the ...

After the Bundestag's approval, with 53 votes in favour out of a total of 69, the Bundesrat also approved the reform that ...

Even 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification, Germany is a fragmented landscape of memories.

But the search for allies is an inevitable component of electoralism, especially in Germany with its system of mixed ...

Germany, the pre-eminent European country for the past century, third in world GDP, the biggest economy in Europe and pivotal to the fortunes of the European Union, voted to elect a new parliament ...

Germany's second chamber of parliament, the Bundesrat, might throw a wrench in Friedrich Merz's debt brake reform. The chamber representing Germany's 16 states must approve all laws that affect states ...

Germany ’s outgoing Bundestag will go out with a bang on Tuesday with an all-or-nothing sitting to back – or sink – an ...