Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

Germany’s federal election last month signaled a shift in the country’s politics – and employers need to understand how this might soon impact ...

But Germany’s voting system is notoriously complex ... The second vote, or ‘Zweitstimme’, is for a political party running in the voter’s federal state and determines. This vote is considered the most ...

EXCLUSIVE: Germany's plan to bypass its newly elected Bundestag to lift the Debt Brake has sparked outrage, with critics ...

If Germany wishes to move forward, it must abandon the convenient illusions of simplistic solutions and address the ...

Friedrich Merz will try to govern with a moderate coalition at a time of rising support for extremist political forces ...

Germany has a very different political system, a different political culture, and a history that hangs over its politics decades after unification and 80 years after World War II and the Holocaust.

While Germany attempts to form its new government, only four of its political parties will have the chance to become part of ...

The CDU's (and Merz's) problem is that there's a pretty big pool of people who want less immigration of political ... German social security and healthcare into a "stocks supported system ...

Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party likely, but the rise of the far-right AfD party and its ...

But will it work out? By Jim Tankersley and Tatiana Firsova Reporting from Berlin It has been a rocky few months for Christian Lindner, and for the German political system that he has thrown into ...