The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz made a tougher migration policy a central plank of his election campaign and ordered more border ...

Lars Klingbeil has rapidly risen to become one of his country’s most influential politicians. But the hard part is just ...

Germany's Free Democratic Party (FDP) is set to meet on Friday to appoint its new leadership, months after its catastrophic ...

Although Friedrich Merz has big ambitions for Germany’s international role, significant domestic pressures remain and will constrain his government’s room for manoeuvre.

Friedrich Merz received a rude shock on the morning of May 6, 2025, as he prepared to lose the “in-waiting” qualifier from ...

Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, outlined his government's agenda to lawmakers in Germany's parliament, the ...

Voting being a quantitative exercise, we can measure how well a voting system lives up to this ideal by measuring ...

US President Donald Trump’s secretary of state Marco Rubio accused the German state of “tyranny in disguise”, further ...

The balance of majoritarian and proportional elements in the federal parliament offers a model the world should look upon with envy.' ...

Russia-Ukraine peace talks finally got underway a day late in Instanbul with little to no expectations after U.S. President ...

“Pivotal moment” is an understatement for what Romania will go through this weekend, as the country decides between two starkly different presidential candidates: the centrist, pro-EU mayor of ...