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 ...

Ed Turner receives funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Friedrich Merz, the presumptive chancellor of Germany, has confirmed he will seek a ...

German election day 2 as it happened Christian Democrats tops the vote, Friedrich Merz hints at debt brake reform on facebook (opens in a new window) German election day 2 as it happened Christian ...

Read More: Exclusive: Alice Weidel on Her Far-Right AfD Party’s Rise, Elon Musk’s Support, and the German Election Merz would see himself as a classic Conservative of the old school ...

Merz, 69, has never held a ministerial job, but he has promised if he becomes the next German chancellor to show leadership in Europe and beef up support for Ukraine. Most Germans have been ...

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Beneath the headline figures though, some stark undercurrents are being revealed. Among the more striking are the divides that are emerging within the electorate along both age and gender lines. The ...

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 ...

German citizens went to the polls this Sunday, taking part in snap federal elections in a vote that will shape the course of the EU's largest member state and its biggest economy for the next four ...

Friedrich Merz is likely to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party topped the vote in elections, exit polls project. The stuttering economy and immigration were major ...