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Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force
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 ...
CBS News26d
Germany is prosecuting online trolls. Here's how the country is fighting hate speech on the internet.
Dozens of police teams across Germany raided homes before dawn in a coordinated crackdown on a recent Tuesday. The state police weren't looking for drugs or guns, they were looking for people ...
Time25d
These Are the Candidates to Be the Next Chancellor of Germany
BERLIN — Four candidates are bidding to be Germany’s next leader in Sunday’s election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, the opposition leader, the current vice chancellor and ...
Yahoo19d
Jewish leader: 'Germany is a different country as of today'
Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, attends an award ceremony. One of the most prominent representatives of the Jewish community in Germany ...
Boston Herald22d
Germany votes Sunday for a new government that will shape Europe’s response to an assertive Trump
It is the 630-member Bundestag that will elect the next chancellor, Germany’s equivalent of a prime minister. There are 29 parties on the ballot, but it’s likely that between five and eight of ...
Wall Street Journal9d
Germany’s Welcome New Defense Spending Plan
Free Expression: Alternative for Germany more than doubled its 2021 vote share to 20% in the 2025 election, but the winning Christian Democratic Union, which sees the AfD as a pariah, has said it ...
The New York Times18d
The Iron Curtain Casts a Long Shadow Over Germany’s Election
The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis. Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne ...
Global News20d
Germany election contenders make final pitches ahead of critical vote
The contenders in Germany’s election made their final appeals to voters Saturday, with opposition leader and front-runner Friedrich Merz vowing to revive the stagnant economy and defend Europe ...
Wall Street Journal8d
Trump’s Embrace of Putin Has Germany Thinking of Nuclear Weapons
BERLIN—President Trump’s embrace of Russia is causing Europeans to rethink their security and giving currency to an idea the U.S. has long sought to avoid: a nuclear-armed Germany. Friedrich ...
CBS News19d
Conservatives win Germany election, far-right in second place, exit polls show
German voters have chosen a new direction in a crucial federal election that will reshape the country's political landscape. Exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz's center-right ...
CNN21d
Germany is holding a national election. Here’s what’s at stake
Voting opened Sunday in a German general election that opinion polls suggest will bring a new chancellor and a new governing coalition. The country’s elections are often a little dry and ...