Friedrich Merz’s reluctance to reform the debt brake and flirtation with the far-right have come back to bite him.

Generators sometimes switch off during those periods rather than lose money. But national electricity system operators can also step in and offer payments to generators to switch off to avoid ...

Merz has four to five years not just to breathe new life into his party, but to ensure the country’s traditional political ...

The far-right group has learned to communicate in a country where traditional media no longer shape public opinion.

A group named Everyone Hates Elon claimed responsibility for the poster. "We don't want his cars, or his fascist politics," a ...

Germany has been in the headlines lately, not least because of JD Vance’s recent visit. He told the Germans, with the same ...

Moritz Warnke writes that snap elections saw stunning gains for left and right, while Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken ...

Germany could reform and be the powerhouse of Europe. But we can't force it to. It's Germany's choice, not ours.

In the recent federal elections the far-right AfD was able to reach sections of the working class on issues over which the ...

President Donald Trump has held the first cabinet meeting of his second administration, inviting Elon Musk, who is not a ...

According to the preliminary results of the Bundestag, or parliamentary, elections, the extreme right-wing party Alternative ...

Paul Hockenos is a journalist and author based in Berlin. His most recent book is “Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, ...