In sync with the German cherry blossom, the new coalition of CDU/CSU (conservative) and SPD (social democrats) published their coalition agreement ...

Katharina Pistor explains why constitutional systems like Germany – and the US – must be able to disqualify rule-breakers.

Even playing as Bolsheviks—which really ought to be easy mode—didn't go well. I just, uh, kind of forgot to do the October ...

Leaders of Europe’s two most powerful countries ramp up EU’s pro-business, anti-green push by calling for repeal of due ...

New Seattle chief of police Shon F. Barnes discusses his first 100 days and his priorities in moving SPD forward.

R. Bruce Anderson writes that a large proportion of European nations came to democratic “norms” while he was alive. What are ...

Last night, the Scottsboro Police Department said that law enforcement agencies from the two states came together at the ...

Germany’s recent federal election signaled a shift in the country’s politics – and employers will surely feel the impact. The center-right ...

And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Friedrich Merz received a rude shock on the morning of May 6, 2025, ...

Although Friedrich Merz has big ambitions for Germany’s international role, significant domestic pressures remain and will constrain his government’s room for manoeuvre.

Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal democratic basic order,” ...