With just two weeks to go (Feb 23 rd ) will the German elections, a number of new, national polls underline the lead of the ...

Germany's political parties receive public funding, membership fees and donations from corporations and individuals. DW examines how German parties get their money.

Most Europeans consider the United States a "necessary partner," according to the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

The allegation comes less than two weeks before Scholz’s party is poised to face a heavy defeat in Germany’s federal election ...

Extremist issues, not the movies, could (once again) be the focus at this year’s Berlinale, and the billionaire broligarch is ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the favourite to become the country's next chancellor after elections on February ...

Election campaign posters showing German Social Democratic Party, SPD, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, top, and his challenger ...

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 ...

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

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...