Late last week, large-scale protests broke out across Germany against right-wing parties, with the largest demonstrations occurring in Munich, Bavaria, where over 200,000 people gathered ...

Germany has a complicated system: voters get two votes, one for the candidate in their own constituency, and another for a party's electoral list. There's also a minimum 5% threshold for a party to ...

Friedrich Merz, front-runner to be Germany's next chancellor, warned that Europe must be united in foreign, security and ...

Major parties and minnows are all promising more and quicker deportations to solve the migration debate as the country is set ...

Outside a disused lamp factory in the southeastern German village of Rott am Inn, four mannequins, including one holding a ...

In the run-up to Germany's February election, some experts worry climate action is being pitted against the economy. What risks could this have for both? And does it make sense to play them off ...

While the Christian Democrat camp is comfortably leading in the polls, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is ...

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

Dogged by protesters, but apparently safe from damage in the polls, Friedrich Merz is putting a failed immigration gambit ...

Candidates for the post of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz have repeatedly manipulated figures, as well as cited false facts during the recent television duel, the ZDF TV channel notes.

Sending workers abroad has been at the core of development strategies of Asian countries like the Philippines and Bangladesh ...

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