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Friedrich Merz gives women voters the ick

Germany’s likely next chancellor faces a key challenge: winning over women.

February 21, 2025 4:01 am CET

The end of Germany’s climate crusade

One of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments is about to fall, replaced by a likely chancellor who says green policy went too far.

February 20, 2025 6:50 pm CET

How Germany’s far right is harnessing AI to win votes

Artificially generated clips serve as “nostalgia machines and emotional cliché amplifiers” ahead of Feb. 23 election.

February 20, 2025 5:30 pm CET

Germany’s Left comes back from the dead

Once written off as a party in terminal decline, Die Linke is defying expectations with a youth-driven resurgence.

February 20, 2025 4:00 am CET

The city that exposes Germany’s deep migration divide

The election race in Schwerin pits a migration official against a far-right politician who’s taken a hard line on the issue.

February 18, 2025 2:38 pm CET

Angry farmers push Poland away from Ukraine

After nearly three years of war in Ukraine, protests by Polish farmers are opening up social and political fractures in a once-unshakeable alliance.

February 17, 2025 4:44 am CET

JD Vance won’t meet Germany’s Scholz at Munich Security Conference

“We don’t need to see him, he won’t be chancellor long,” a former U.S. official said of Vance’s thinking.

February 13, 2025 6:26 pm CET

French PM Bayrou survives budget fight but finds himself boxed in

A brewing debate on immigration threatens the unity of Bayrou’s minority government.

February 13, 2025 4:02 am CET
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Germany’s disappearing green agenda

The country once seen as a climate trailblazer is in danger of becoming a laggard, as the party almost certain to lead the next government is on a mission to dilute environmental targets.

February 13, 2025 4:00 am CET

Germany’s Olaf Scholz hits back at racism accusations in election race

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

February 12, 2025 4:58 pm CET

Germany’s far-left party sees membership surge before election

The Left’s boost in numbers fuels hope of clearing the 5 percent threshold to enter the Bundestag.

February 11, 2025 9:24 am CET

Macron picks close ally to lead court that could decide Le Pen’s fate

Richard Ferrand’s appointment drew criticism even before being made official.

February 10, 2025 7:50 pm CET
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Romania’s Klaus Iohannis announces he’ll resign as president

Longtime leader heads for the exit amid political turmoil in Bucharest.

February 10, 2025 3:06 pm CET

Germany’s far right woos the workers in election battle

Long the preserve of the center left, factories now provide fertile territory for the populist AfD party.

February 10, 2025 4:00 am CET

Kosovo PM Albin Kurti wins election amid tensions with Brussels and Washington

But Kurti’s ruling party fell short of a majority and will need to find a coalition partner if it hopes to continue in power.

February 10, 2025 2:33 am CET
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Germany’s old-school conservatism is well and truly over

Even if Merz stumbles across the finish line and secures a coalition government, the death knell for Christian democracy may well have been sounded.

February 7, 2025 4:00 am CET

Here’s what Germany’s next government will look like

Germany’s conservatives are desperate to avoid a three-party coalition, but the outcome depends on how many small parties make it into parliament.

February 6, 2025 4:00 am CET

Russia supported sabotage spree in Germany to roil election campaign, report says

A wave of car vandalism, initially blamed on climate activists, is now being linked to Moscow.

February 5, 2025 2:21 pm CET

Let’s kill the Green Deal together with the far right, ECR tells EPP

The Christian Democrats should abandon their leftist allies, argues Giorgia Meloni’s political family.

January 30, 2025 4:00 pm CET

Angela Merkel throws firework into German election campaign

Former chancellor’s intervention exposes deep rift within country’s conservatives over how to handle the far right’s rising influence.

January 30, 2025 12:35 pm CET
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Germany’s far right crashes through the firewall

Did Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, fall into a trap? Or is he forcing other mainstream parties to confront what many regard as the new reality — a harder, less welcoming Germany?

January 30, 2025 4:00 am CET

Germany’s Scholz lashes out at Musk’s ‘disgusting’ interventions in Europe

German chancellor has finally had enough of the tech billionaire and Donald Trump adviser.

January 28, 2025 10:55 pm CET

How Vladimir Putin killed the EU’s frugal coalition

The need to counter Russia is shifting the attitudes of rich northern countries on budget discipline.

January 28, 2025 4:10 am CET

Putin congratulates Lukashenko on totally ‘convincing’ Belarus election win

Victory “demonstrates your high political authority,” the Kremlin chief gushes about his counterpart in Minsk.

January 27, 2025 11:44 am CET
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