The socialist Left party has adopted its policy platform for Germany’s September general election. Internationally, it is calling for NATO to be replaced and an end to troop deployments. Among its manifesto commitments, the party advocates an end to all … Read More
CSU chairman Markus Söder was long seen as a strong contender to replace Angela Merkel as a conservative chancellor. But after a power struggle with CDU head Armin Laschet, he stepped aside. Markus Söder heads the Christian Social Union Bavarian … Read More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel Photograph:( Reuters ) STORY HIGHLIGHTS Merkel’s party now has a new leader — Armin Laschet — who will lead the charge of the Christian democratic union in the September polls. It’s the end of an era … Read More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel waves at the first election campaign rally in the final phase of campaigning on September 8, 2013 – when Merkel and the CDU had a strong lead in polls over the opposition. –Sascha Schuermann | Getty … Read More
The German chancellor’s most likely successor wants to end her way of doing politics. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Oct. 15, 2019, in Berlin), left, and German corporate lawyer and former parliamentary group leader of the Christian Democratic Union Friedrich Merz … Read More
More than half of German residents are now skeptical about Chancellor Angela Merkel’s famously optimistic quote regarding the 2015 migrant crisis, a poll published by the Augsburger Allgemeine on Saturday found. Read more: Refugees in Germany: From the boat to the Bundeskunsthalle The survey, carried out … Read More
Five years ago, as hundreds of thousands of refugees came to Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel maintained: “We can do it.” How has Germany — and those who sought asylum — managed since then? DW explains. Perhaps no other phrase uttered during … Read More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, hold a joint news conference via video conference to mark Berlin taking over the EU’s rotating presidency from July 1 until the end of the … Read More
German authorities identified over 32,200 right-wing extremists in 2019, according to a report. Much of the rise has to do with authorities counting groups affiliated with the far-right AfD for the first time. The number of right-wing extremists active in Germany rose … Read More
A poster depicting Bjoern Hoecke of Alternative for Germany (AfD) and reading “Never again” is pictured outside the Midnight Shisha bar in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Germany, February 22, 2020. Projected results indicated that AfD would be ejected from the Hamburg … Read More