News, analysis, opinion and polling data on the German federal election in February 2025. An interactive graphic failed to load. This is most likely due to being offline or JavaScript being ...

The AfD, despite being under surveillance by German domestic intelligence services for pursuing “goals that run against the human dignity of certain groups and against democracy,” has polled ...

In German public broadcaster ARD's Berliner Runde post-election debate on Sunday night, all main candidates gathered to discuss key takeaways. Merz reaffirmed his stance against forming a ...

Voters who cast their ballots on February 23, 2025, did not directly elect the next German chancellor. Instead, they will elect politicians to the Bundestag, the lower house of German parliament.

Parties must clear a 5% electoral threshold in Germany to win seats in the national parliament or at least three of the party's candidates must win their local elections outright. Parties must ...

4. Will one party run the government? No party will have enough seats to form a government alone, given that the German system makes it extremely difficult to do so, by design. A coalition needs ...

Auto supplier Continental plans to shutter one plant in Germany, as the company has fallen short of financial targets, despite earlier cutbacks. German auto parts supplier Continental announced ...

The image of German leadership has taken a hit at home as well as among other Europeans, with a notable decline from a median of 60% to 54% in the past 12 months alone. Slovenia, Norway ...

The CBS News piece showcased how German authorities crack down on online speech deemed harmful or offensive under the country's stringent speech laws. The report documented early-morning police ...

German news media, and much of the country’s political leadership, immersed themselves to a larger degree in a blizzard of foreign-policy pronouncements from the Trump administration as Western ...

“If I understood him correctly, he is comparing conditions in parts of Europe with those in authoritarian regimes,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Friday. “That is ...