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

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 ...

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

Friedrich Merz, the leading candidate for Germany’s next chancellor, has said that Europe must be united in foreign, security ...

Germany could face months of political uncertainty after the federal election on Feb. 23 as opposition chief Friedrich Merz, ...

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 ...

Friedrich Merz, front-runner to be Germany's next chancellor, warned that Europe must be united in foreign, security and ...

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 ...

Outside a disused lamp factory in the southeastern German village of Rott am Inn, four mannequins, including one holding a ...

Inciting hatred against migrants, rearmament, and cuts in social provisions stood at the centre of the recent prime-time ...

Sarah Wagenknecht also criticized the parties of the Traffic Light Coalition, which disbanded in November, for the current state of the nation ...