The AfD Is Now Germany’s Main Opposition Party. Here’s What to Expect
as Germany’s top court did with the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany, or NPD.
The blue seats in Germany’s parliament are being moved to match voters’ choices
German voters have had their say. Now their verdict is being turned into reality underneath the glass dome of Berlin’s ...
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Germany Needs to Get Its Act Together. Under Him, It Won’t.
He worried, too, that the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany would make it into Parliament. By the time he joined the Christian Democrats’ youth organization at age 17, it was clear ...
Germany Is Lifting a Foot Off Its ‘Debt Brake.’ Here’s Why.
An incoming government wants to borrow much more to revamp the economy and rebuild the military. That means a change in the ...
CNN28d
Germany is holding a national election. Here’s what’s at stake
Last November, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party ... for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). Musk’s intervention sparked a national debate about how Germany ...
CBS News26d
Conservatives win Germany election, far-right in second place, exit polls show
Exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz's center-right Christian Democratic Union party leading the votes with the far-right Alternative for Germany ... result in a national parliamentary ...
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Can Germany’s defensive democracy hold the line against the AfD?
The National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), according to the court itself, intended “to replace the existing constitutional system with an authoritarian national state that adheres to the ...
Germany’s likely next leader wins parliament’s backing for huge defense and infrastructure spending
Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the ...
National Review24d
Germany Doubling Down on Democratic Deficits
David Marquand, a British academic, coined the term “democratic deficit” in the ... of the West continues apace. The Indian national’s wife is the daughter of Amhed Yousef, a former senior ...
Germany's parliament passes historic package boosting defence spending
Friedrich Merz needed the support of two-thirds majority in parliament for his plan to unlock billions for defence and infrastructure spending. #EuropeNews ...
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Charting the rise of Germany’s far-right AfD party
As such, Germany’s coalition options are now limited essentially to one, given the voting results. A grand coalition including the CDU, the CSU and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) is the most ...