Parties must clear a 5% electoral threshold in Germany to win seats in the national parliament or at least three of the party's candidates must win their local elections outright. Parties must ...

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. Nobody can be expected to fix Germany’s problems overnight, but with the ...

Dozens of students at a U.S. military middle school in Germany walked out of class in protest of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's dismantling of DEI policies during his visit to the country this week.

Although his asylum application had been rejected, he lived in Germany legally with a residence permit and had no previous convictions. He is being investigated for 36 counts of attempted murder ...

Spectre of far-Right nationalism looms as Germans prepare to cast their ballots Next Sunday, Germany goes to the polls. The federal republic’s most important election since reunification in 1990 ...

The selling prices in wholesale trade were 0.9% higher in January 2025 than in January 2024. Compared with the same month a year earlier, the rate of change was +0.1% in December 2024, and -0.6% in ...

Investing.com - The US dollar retreated Thursday, with the euro rallying, on raised hopes of an end to the Ukraine-Russia war after U.S. President Donald Trump held talks with the leaders of both ...

The inflation rate in Germany, measured as the year-on-year change in the consumer price index (CPI), stood at +2.3% in January 2025. In December 2024, inflation was somewhat higher, at +2.6%. The ...

Berlin: Germany will extend its strict border controls, initially implemented to address migration and terrorism concerns, for an additional six months beyond their planned expiration in March ...

GERMANY IS THE hole at the heart of Europe. It accounts for a quarter of the European Union’s output but it has been in recession for the past two years—and this year risks being the third ...

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