Officials from Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats and the SPD are discussing ways to free up resources to beef up the ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

The American message in Munich a week ago made German-US relations an unexpectedly divisive German election issue. Germans ...

Germany has long been considered to have relatively ambitious climate goals and it’s likely that combatting climate change ...

What is Germany's 'debt brake?' In Germany, the federal government and the 16 states (Länder) are obliged to balance their ...

The German election on Sunday demonstrated that voters demand a stark change in how the ruling coalition has governed the ...

The new policy is a shift from the department’s stance earlier in February, as Lottery officials said they had no control over the third-party services.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk speaks live via a video transmission during the election campaign launch rally of the far-right Alternative for Germany party on January 25, 2025, in Halle, Germany. In the ...

The German elections have taken place and the Bundestag is looking a lot more right-wing than it was this time yesterday. The ...

German voters are choosing their new government in an election dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of Europe’s biggest economy, pressure to curb migration and growing uncertainty over ...

At issue was a 25-year precedent that allows local governments to create protest-free buffer zones around all health-care ...

The leader of Germany's ascendant conservative party now has to build a ruling coalition after electoral wins this weekend.