The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

Free Expression: Alternative for Germany more than doubled its 2021 vote share to 20% in the 2025 election, but the winning Christian Democratic Union, which sees the AfD as a pariah, has said it ...

There is something evocative of this in Friedrich Merz, an avid pilot who is also something of a cavalier. Before Merz became ...

Peymann's importance lay in the fact that he understood and defended the theatre as a politically and socially significant and indispensable institution, without making any artistic concessions ...

Former German health minister Jens Spahn is under pressure over his procurement of expensive coronavirus masks after a leak of an unredacted report led to outrage among opposition parties. Several ...

The former German government pledged not to grant permits for new oil and gas drilling projects in the German North Sea in 2021 but the Friedrich Merz-led Christian Democratic Union government ...

The flight took off with some 43 Iraqis, days after a similar flight carried Afghan citizens home. Meanwhile, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt is discussing tougher migration methods in Denmark.

The Berlin Senate is made up of a coalition between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Cutting the tax for all was a key plank of the coalition agreement between Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Bavaria-only Christian Social Union and the centre-left ...

Supporters of the Alternative for Germany say they might quit voting if the party is outlawed. Some opponents are against ...