Germany's The Left, a hard-left descendant of the party that once ruled East Germany, convened in Berlin on Saturday to agree on its manifesto, with affordable rent its top concern ahead of elections on February 23.

Germany's The Left, a hard-left descendant of the party that once ruled East Germany, is set to agree on its manifesto at a conference in Berlin on Saturday, with affordable rent its top concern ahead of elections on February 23.

Friedrich Merz, the conservative frontrunner to replace Chancellor Olaf Scholz after Germany's upcoming elections, is calling on the European Union to present a united front in response to US President-elect Donald Trump.

The harsh postwar ‘Morgethau plan’ would have rendered Germany incapable of ever starting another world war in Europe. Today, via green delusions and open borders, Germans have

From worries over the frontrunner parties in Germany taking aim at immigration and citizenship to accidentally annoying your German neighbours, here's what we're talking about this week at The Local.

With less than six weeks to go until voters head to the polls, the snap federal election campaign in Germany is finally heating up. The AfD is set to turn a third of Germany blue and clinch five

Election posters at a street in Duesseldorf, Germany, show the top candidates for chancellor, Robert Habeck of the Green Party, Friedrich Merz of the CDU and Olaf Scholz for the

A convention of a far-right party is being met by protests in Germany as it and other major parties launch their campaigns for the country’s election next month.

Two former deputies of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) went on trial on Thursday at Munich's Higher Regional Court on charges of accepting bribes from Azerbaijan to influence decisions in A

When Germans head to the polls on Feb. 23 to elect a new government, one of the key issues at stake will be the country’s so-called "debt brake," a constitutional amendment that significantly limits the country’s fiscal space.

Currently, 10 lawmakers represent the BSW in the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament. They all won their seats in 2021 as candidates for the Left party. In 2025, they are running for ...

The former leader of Germany's socialist Left party is aiming to get her eponymous Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance into the Bundestag in its first federal election in February. Polls suggest that she may fail.