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

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

In the run-up to Germany's February election, some experts worry climate action is being pitted against the economy. What risks could this have for both? And does it make sense to play them off ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected to be voted out of office as Europe's biggest economy goes to the polls. Sky News looks at ...

German elections, as the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) continues to grow in popularity, although it is unlikely ...