In Germany, ‘Orphaned’ by U.S., Shock Gives Way to Action
No country in Europe is as much a product of enlightened postwar American diplomacy. Now adrift, it has begun to reckon with ...
The blue seats in Germany’s parliament are being moved to match voters’ choices
German voters have had their say. Now their verdict is being turned into reality underneath the glass dome of Berlin’s ...
Germany’s likely next leader wins parliament’s backing for huge defense and infrastructure spending
Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the ...
Germany’s Merz wins vote to massively expand borrowing and super-charge military spending
The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...
The Street Journal5d
A look back: East Germany’s first freely elected parliament
On March 18, 1990, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged as the strongest party after the election for the East German parliament, the People's Chamber. The conservative CDU laid claim to the ...
jacobin24d
The German Election in Ten Graphs
On Sunday, Germany voted in a federal ... in the former West for the first time. Its vote among elderly rural men was much poorer (4 percent), but still higher than its national average polling score ...
NDTV24d
Opinion | The Rise Of The Far Right In Germany Is No Ordinary Shift
The 2025 German federal election has brought a shift in ... and ideological divisions—west Germany largely stayed with the CDU, while the east overwhelmingly backed AfD. As the political ...
World Socialist Web Site24d
Germany’s 2025 federal election: How the struggle against fascism and war must be waged
Germany’s federal election, held this past Sunday, reflects the deep political and social crisis present in every major capitalist country. The situation in Germany will lead to explosive class ...
Links International Journal Of Socialist Renewal25d
The 2025 German election: First impressions and implications (plus: How Die Linke turned the tide)
The 2025 German federal election ... (4,355,382 to be precise), the party achieved its second-best result ever in a federal election, and its best-ever result in the West (3,034,032 votes). Die Linke ...
The Nation Newspaper25d
German election and the place of Germany in the world
I have always followed the development in the political economy of Germany for several reasons. I spent three months as a postgraduate student in the Historisches Seminar in Hamburg University in ...
Politico Europe26d
German election rekindles old divisions
In 2021, the SPD won on both ends of Germany’s decades-old and persistent East-West divide. But as the socialists beat ... has won both the constituency and list votes in every federal election since ...