Germany's budget travel pass is still as popular as ever, but renewed debates over funding are putting its future in jeopardy ...

Germany has a complicated system: voters get two votes, one for the candidate in their own constituency, and another for a party's electoral list. There's also a minimum 5% threshold for a party to ...

Germany's political parties receive public funding, membership fees and donations from corporations and individuals. DW examines how German parties get their money.

Extremist issues, not the movies, could (once again) be the focus at this year’s Berlinale, and the billionaire broligarch is ...

The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before the federal election ...

The frontrunner in the race to run Germany is Friedrich Merz, whose Christian Democrats (CDU) are up to 10 points ahead in ...

Spoiler: It’s looking rough for Scholz’s Social Democrats. A conservative former Merkel-foe appears likely to take over, and the far right is busy cosying up to a certain US tech billionaire for even ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

It is not a question of distributing the 35,000 job losses “fairly” between east and west Germany, but of preventing them.

Two weeks today, Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative CDU party in Germany, will most likely be one step closer to ...

Germans are feeling increasingly less safe in their own country, due largely to immigration - a recent survey reveals.

As the two frontrunners in Germany’s general election prepare to go head to head in the first televised debate, the former chancellor’s intervention is a sign of the concern within the political ...