POLITICO has processed 35 years’ worth of election data to find out why this month’s vote is messier than ever ― and what ...

Russia has consistently denied involvement in disinformation campaigns against the West. In recent weeks ... state attempts to influence the federal election. Germany is Ukraine's second biggest ...

Reminders of Germany’s Nazi past are everywhere in the city of Pforzheim. Small brass “stumble stones” dotted through the streets mark the homes of Jewish people who were deported and murdered.

make this year’s election comparable to that of 1949, conducted in the ashes of military defeat, and 1990, the first in reunified Germany. But this time a sense of urgency is almost entirely ...

However, the so-called 'AfD firewall' was breached for the first time since 1949 when Merz put forward ... the debate in the Bundestag. The German federal election is scheduled for 23 February.

It is not a question of distributing the 35,000 job losses “fairly” between east and west Germany, but of preventing them.