Ciarán Cuffe, co-chair of the European Green Party, points to research on election day which “showed that climate, environment and energy remain in the top three concerns of German voters.” ...

High Representative of the European Union Kaja Kallas urged the swift formation of a new government: “The German people have made a choice, and now they need to put together the government.

An extreme right-wing German party endorsed by Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance surged in the country's Sunday election, winning the broadest support of any far-right party in Germany since ...

Coalition politics have long been a fixture of German governance. The country’s proportional representation electoral system, combined with the fluctuating performances of its traditional political ...

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"Now he must see that he acts like a chancellor." But German political analyst Nicolai von Ondarza said there was a strong feeling within the CDU that this was “a government of last chance” to ...

But the term can also refer to the mass deportation of migrants and their descendants. In May 2024 a German court rejected an AfD appeal against a ruling classifying it as a suspected far-right ...

The core AfD voter is an Eastern German person — older, male, if you want to have a typical person — and that is a person who is leaning toward Russia. In Eastern Germany, you have a lot of ...

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Good morning. Germany’s election has delivered a slim but navigable path for centre-right leader Friedrich Merz to become chancellor at the head of a two-party grand coalition — despite a big ...

For the first time since World War II, a far-right party has come second in a German national election. Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) received its highest-ever share of the electorate with ...