In July 2023, Marla-Svenja Liebich, then still known as Sven, was sentenced to one and a half years' imprisonment without ...

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens have rejected calls for benefit cuts from leading economic expert Veronika Grimm, ...

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 ...

GERMANY'S NEW LEADER LOOKS TO DISTANCE EUROPE FROM TRUMP To secure the position of chancellor, Merz would have needed to win 316 out of 630 in the Bundestag. The coalition of CSU/CDU and SPD has ...

Andrea Nahles, the plain-speaking 47-year-old leader of the Social Democrats in Germany's parliament, is set to be given the task of re-energising a 154-year-old party that has alienated much of ...

The SPD manifesto is aimed at defusing the growing outrage over the party's militaristic course, which resulted in its worst-ever election result in February.